"First published in 1993"--Title page verso.

Comprises forty stories and poems that feature Luke Warmwater, an Ojibwa Vietnam veteran who survived the war but has trouble surviving the peace. Returning to the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation after the war, Warmwater finds poverty, unemployment, and the work of the tribal government may prove greater foes than those he faced in the Vietnam jungle -- yet he finds salvation through family, community, and humor. This twentieth-anniversary edition includes additional material that provides historical context for Warmwater's story including a play, three Ojibwe poems, and a collection of newspaper columns written by author Jim Northrup for the Duluth News Tribune in the early 1990s.

NEMBA (Northeastern Minnesota Book Award) winner, 1993.