← Hawk Dancer and
Cloudburst ← and soon a third book → Birch Clump Portfolio →
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"In those countries where circumstances warrant it our activity will promote indigenous culture as well."
[Constitutions of the Society of St. Paul, # 72.1]
The big button above searches inside HAWK DANCER.
The big blue button below with the RED peeks inside CLOUDBURST, the second book I wrote.
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Novels: Hawk Dancer (which is part one) Cloudburst (the companion novel)
The 3rd book: Birch Clump Portfolio (Short Stories and poems)
Magazines: Birch Clump Villager (Literature & Art) Birch Clump Chronicle (pastoral issues)
About the North Country novels: Hawk Dancer and the companion novel Cloudburst, are works of historical fiction set in the pristine wilderness communities
of the Upper Peninsula and Northern Wisconsin Great Lakes region. These are moving and at times dynamic accounts of the three major cultural
grouping in the region, Native American, Euro-American and Métis (mixed race) from 1934 to the present day.
The main protagonists, Richard Hawk Dancer White, and Job born in 1917 set the stage. Baby Boomers, Randy, Dean and Erik, also central
characters in the accounting arrive in the very early 1950s. Real events of modern American history are played out through these main characters
and dozens of their friends, family members and other relations.
The author, who is no fan of honey drip or artificially sweetened run of the mill Christian novels, wrote these books with family friendly
values in mind, yet are by no means soft and cuddly. There are plenty of good times and tender moments, but no with no sugar added. These novels,
just like the real history they are set in, have their better moments and their dangerously trying times.
The inter-cultural, inter-racial relationships are tested. Biases expose themselves; but over all, the novels move towards positive reality
and possibilities.
There are humorous moments like finding a skunk in the car; a student is caught in the act of trying to playfully booby trap the principal’s
office door, and other backfiring of playful jokes. There are life’s tragic moments: a child is snatched, minor and major school yard scraps,
a cross burning, a mother and son flee an abusive husband/father and a couple of dysfunctional families deal with more than their share of
problems.
Victories abound as the marginalized or down trodden find success and stability, the Civil rights Movement produces fruit, and lovers get
married and a child’s seemingly miraculous cure brings estranged neighbors back together. That’s life for better or for worse.
About the 3rd book,
Birch Clump Portfolio
This volume of short stories and poetry is expected to be on the book shelves by summer of 2010. This third volume introduces several
new characters. Jason Olsen is a diminutive teen of the 1960’s, a tad bit on the quiet and unassuming side by outward appearances and resides
in an impoverished trailer park in an otherwise middle class suburb. He’s in love with just past middle-middle class Linda Naughton with the
naughty laugh. He’s Catholic and Métis (mixed race). She’s Lutheran and White. Their parents aren’t exactly comfortable with the relationship.
He accidently set fire to his best (and only) pair of Sunday Dress trousers on Christmas Eve and talks to his friend in the full
length closet mirror about the turmoil this has caused the family. He’s sweet, humorous at times, and manages to innocently blunder up dates
and events. His best friend Jack and some sort of a distant relative named Amos tosses him into a river and nearly losses him.
In other stories a fugitive is visited by the ghost of his victim, a grocer thumbs the meat scale, and young Paul Depue of White
Fish Bay, wearing tight Jordach designer jeans, struts his stuff for the ladies at his down state government office job.
Poems honor snakes found in an outhouse and a monk squealing rubber on a night time joy ride down country roads. One poem recalls
a Supreme Court decision to honor treaty rights between the Anishinabe and the USA. Other poems open a window into a winter time jeweled
forest, and of grey shadowed deer stealthily headed from the forest cover to drink from running streams at twilight.
WHAT IS A STUMP JUMPER? and what is a "Yooper?"
These novels are about Yoopers and Stump Jumpers; that is, about folks in the small villages and back woodlands of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Yooper comes from the initials "U.P." for Upper Peninsula. A Stump Jumper is an enderment for those who live in the woods and have lots of tree stumps
to jump.
To Buy These Novels:
$34.95 for the Soft Cover Edition of Hawk Dancer
from the publisher.
$27.95 for the soft coverr Edition of Cloudburst
from the publisher.NOW: $24.95
Available from all major
book sellers.
Almost any brick and mortar, (the new term, I am told, for a good old fashioned neighborhood establishment) book store can order copies for
you. You can also go on line and order from your favorite online web-store, such as Barns and Noble or Amazon dot com.
Discount Prices: You may purchase signed copies from me at discount prices.
Contact me first to make sure I have a sufficient supply on hand.
Hawk Dancer (the 1st novel) is $31 from me, and the second part, Cloudburst is $24.00. Both novels are $54 if you order both from me at the same
time. Details: click here.
One click of the picture above takes you to both books @ Barnes & Nobels. You can also order from any major book seller, and
most neighborhood book stores will order the book for you. Click here
for links to Amazon an dother major sellers, or to obtain a signed copy from the author.
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WHAT IS NEW ON THIS SITE?
Jan. 28, 2010: Writing tips for aspiring authors who want to get published. I took down my old pages on this subject and am
starting to put up a revised version. Writer's guide
Jan. 22, 2010: A new monthly short story is put up early.
The fishing Hole, as protrayed here, is not quite as pristine
as the title might suggest.
Jan. 18, 2010: I'm looking for authors and artists who want to be published in my
Magazines. North country small town business owners, galleries, artsits and writers
find out how you can be featured for FREE in the Birch Clump Villager.
Jan. 16, 2010: The web pages for the Congregation of St. James, a concept for a Native American Catholic Religious order, has been
trasfered from its old web site to this official Hawk Dancer web site.
CSJ
Highly Recommended:
July 18, 2008 – I located the following quote from the minuets of Our Lady of the Angles Regional council Meeting,
November 28, 2005:
Bishop Clark also recommended that the Regional Council members read “Hawk Dancer”, a novel by Joshua Seidl which gives an
experience on the Native American culture in the Catholic community in this country. L.A. Archdiocese
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"In those countries where circumstances warrant it our activity will promote indigenous culture as well."
[Constitutions of the Society of St. Paul, # 72.1]
Island off shore of Washburn, Wisconsin
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Magazines by Joshua
I produce two magazines, Birch Clump Chronicle and the Birch Clump Villager. these are available through the printer,
MAGcloud.com.
These are real, true, hard copy printed magazine that are mailed out to you when you order.
You do NOT have to sign up to be a MAGcloud member to buy these magazines.
BC Magazines.
I am looking for authors, artists and photographers. Find out more, click the above link.
Record this email address yoshua@hawkdancer.com if you are at a computer that does not permit you to have email access.
Leading review
Dr. Rose Quinones, Phd
adds in her review of Hawk Dancer: ...
The author weaves the personal stories of the characters, Richard and Job, within a historical
context spanning four decades. ... [The] author allows the reader to view the world through their struggle between
the Ojibwe and the dominant society's ways.