Motorcycles and Sweetgrass

Publisher's description (Vintage Canada, 2010): Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the stranger’s intentions, he teams up with his uncle Wayne – a master of aboriginal martial arts – to drive the stranger from the Reserve. And it turns out that the raccoons are willing to lend a hand. Drew Hayden Taylor is Ojibway from the Curve Lake First Nations.

Resource format: Novel

Age recommendation: Grades 10-12, University

Keywords: Anishnawbe, contemporary Anishnawbe society, intergenerational trauma, comedy

Year of publication: 2010

Publisher information: Vintage Canada