{"product_id":"white-birch-red-hawthorn-nora-murphy-9781517901325","title":"White Birch, Red Hawthorn: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This is conquered land.\" The Dakota woman's words, spoken at a community meeting in St. Paul, struck Nora Murphy forcefully. Her own Irish great-great grandparents, fleeing the potato famine, had laid claim to 160 acres in a virgin maple grove in Minnesota. That her dispossessed ancestors' homestead, The Maples, was built upon another, far more brutal dispossession is the hard truth underlying \u003ci\u003eWhite Birch, Red Hawthorn\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoir of Murphy's search for the deeper connections between this contested land and the communities who call it home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn twelve essays, each dedicated to a tree significant to Minnesota, Murphy tells the story of the grove that, long before the Irish arrived, was home to three Native tribes: the Dakota, Ojibwe, and Ho-Chunk. She notes devastating strategies employed by the U.S. government to wrest the land from the tribes, but also revisits iconic American tales that subtly continue to promote this displacement--the Thanksgiving story, the Paul Bunyan myth, and Laura Ingalls Wilder's \u003ci\u003eLittle House\u003c\/i\u003e books. Murphy travels to Ireland to search out another narrative long hidden--that of her great-great-grandmother's transformative journey from North Tipperary to The Maples.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn retrieving these stories, \u003ci\u003eWhite Birch, Red Hawthorn\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers lingering wounds of the past--and the possibility that, through connection to this suffering, healing can follow. The next step is simple, Murphy tells us: listen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nora Murphy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517901324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517901325\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/18\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Nora Murphy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43989965668607,"sku":"9781517901325","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_63eb834c-0d98-404d-b9d3-4390d4d0319d.jpg?v=1683302324","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/white-birch-red-hawthorn-nora-murphy-9781517901325","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}