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Paul Hawkin has led in the climate change and sustainability literature for decades but this, I believe, is his most important work. Why? Because it demonstrates that the answers to climate extremes also solves many other long-term problems. For example, giving Native Americans control of their own land is a long-standing human rights issue; educating women worldwide has been a strategy recommended by the UN and human right groups as a proven strategy for reducing population pressures, improving health, reducing costs, promoting small business, and empowering 50% of the world to make a positive difference in our collective well-being. You'll be amazed at the top ten strategies: they are totally doable; we have the know-how. All that is missing is the WILL. Let's do it! Read the book and then pass it on to your friends.

Marjorie Rawlings called it "a book of the rarest beauty" when she first reviewed it in 1939 for the University of Michigan Hopwood Award. Iola Fuller won the award that year. It was her first book and many regard it as her finest. If you like historical fiction, and regional literature, your will enjoy The Loon Feather immensely. The writing is superb and the story unfolds at a pace that keeps you reading. When the novel opens, the French and English were nearing the end of what had been a century of fur trading in the Great Lakes region. Beaver were the first extracted resource brought to near extinction before settlers turned their attention to logging and mining. Tecumseh was born in 1768 at a time when tribes were progressively pushed off their land. Tecumseh traveled throughout Indian country forming a Pan Indian Alliance to try to hold onto traditional lands above the Ohio River into Canada. He also formed an alliance with the British to fight the U.S. but was later betrayed when the Brits ceded all Indian lands to the U.S. in the Treaty of Greenville. Oneta, the main character, comes of age in these turbulent times. We learn much about her early tribal life and influences before her father is killed and her mother remarries into a French aristocratic family. Later she is sent to a Catholic boarding school for Indian girls to learn European ways. In all of these huge challenges, Oneta recalls what she learned from Marte, her aunt, and the book's voice for the traditions of the Ojibwe people. In the end Oneta fulfills the prophesy at her birth, that she will bring a great warrior into her tribe. The latter will surprise you. Accurately researched, the book is still considered a regional gem. It remained on the NY Times Bestseller List in 1940 for three months.