The people in these pages remind us that this moment in time is very much connected to what came before and what will follow.

I receive updates each month about relatives that are linked to my genetics, many of whom are unknown to me.

I am the child of a sharecropper’s son and a coal miner’s daughter. The mining industry and union struggle are

Twenty years ago, the main characters — Ojibwe cousins Sher and Kris — emerged during a short writing exercise. It

“The legal aspect is one thing, but the healing aspect is another. Often survivors have to pay out of pocket to receive services for trauma they endured by the hands of someone else.”

excerpted from the archives of Minnesota Women’s Press