
Beginnings
Description
Beginnings: The Homeward Journey of Donovan Manypenny is the story of Donovan Manypenny. Raised by his grandparents on a northern Wisconsin Ojibwe reservation until their passing when he is ten years old, he becomes a ward of the state of Wisconsin and enters the child welfare system - foster care, children's home, and adoption. The trauma he experiences as a result of losing his grandparents and way of life leads him to put his past behind him for over forty-three years. Then at the age of fifty-three, events in his life take him back to his childhood home, retracing the historical westward migration of his Ojibwe ancestors. Heartfelt and bittersweet, and layered with meaning, Beginnings: The Homeward Journey of Donovan Manypenny will resonate with anyone who longs to make the journey home, wherever that may be, as well those who seek or have experienced cultural or spiritual awakening, and healing.
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Person
Thomas D. Peacock is a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior (Anishinaabe Ojibwe). Several of his books (Ojibwe Waasa Inaabida, The Good Path) were Minnesota Book Award winners. The Seventh Generation won a national Multicultural Children's Book of the Year award. Other books include A Forever Story, Collected Wisdom, The Tao of Nookomis, The Four Hills of Life and To Be Free. An illustrated children's book, The Forever Sky, will be released in 2019. He lives with his wife, Betsy, in Little Sand Bay, Red Cliff, Wisconsin, and Duluth, Minnesota.
Content
Chapter One - Grandfather and Grandmother Manypenny
Chapter Two - Northland Children's Home
Chapter Three - The Pedersons
Chapter Four - The Elder Teachers
Part Two - The Westward Migration
Chapter Five - In the Creator's Eyes
Chapter Six - The First Turtle Shaped Island
Chapter Seven - Ramona of the Wolf Clan
Chapter Eight - Little Boy
Chapter Nine - Baw-wa-ting
Chapter Ten - The Wolf's Trail
Chapter Eleven - The Place Where Food Grows on Water
Chapter Twelve - Where the Earth Began
Chapter Thirteen - Beginning
Epilogue