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White Birch, Red Hawthorn indigenous studies resonates and awakens an awarenessThis is conquered land. The Dakota womans words, spoken at a community meeting in St. Paul, struck Nora Murphy forcefully. Her own Irish great great grandparents, fleeing the potato famine, had laid claim to 160 acres in a virgin maple grove in Minnesota. That her dispossessed ancestors homestead, The Maples, was built upon another, far more brutal dispossession is the hard truth underlying White Birch, Red Hawthorn, a memoir of Murphys search for the