On the Blackfeet reservation in Montana, eight-year-old Rosie owns almost nothing — a ragdoll, a toy turtle, a hideaway her Uncle Joe cleared for her in an old beaver lodge. When she finds a battered, one-eyed stuffed animal at the creek's edge, she names it Noohkíít — the word closest to secret. Then a storm rises, the lodge collapses on Rosie and Noohkíít, and the sister who scorns everything Rosie loves proves, in one fierce act, who she truly is.
Uncle Joe's teaching holds for her beloved toy and her more beloved sister: see what they do and know the who. Everyone has a Do-Who that tells the truth about who they are.
On the Blackfeet reservation in Montana, eight-year-old Rosie owns almost nothing — a ragdoll, a toy turtle, a hideaway her Uncle Joe cleared for her in an old beaver lodge. When she finds a battered, one-eyed stuffed animal at the creek's edge, she names it Noohkíít — the word closest to secret. Then a storm rises, the lodge collapses on Rosie and Noohkíít, and the sister who scorns everything Rosie loves proves, in one fierce act, who she truly is.
Uncle Joe's teaching holds for her beloved toy and her more beloved sister: see what they do and know the who. Everyone has a Do-Who that tells the truth about who they are.