Walking the Rez Road Author:Jim Northrup WINNER: Midwest Book Achievement Award, Minnesota Book Award, Northeastern Minnesota Book Award. Forty Short Stories and Poems featuring Luke Warmwater as a central character. Luke is a Vietnam veteran who has survived the war but is "having trouble/surviving the peace" on a reservation where everyone is broke and where the tribal government s... more »eems to work against the interests of the reservation folk. Throughout Walking the Rez Road, it is humor that holds the people and their community together.« less
First-hand accounts of contemporary life (post-Vietnam) on a Native Indian reservation through a mix of poetry and short story. I completely enjoyed how Northrup just goes for it in his poetry.