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Published February 10, 2011, 04:02 PM

Northrup to debut new book in Cloquet Feb. 26

Award-winning author and Sawyer resident Jim Northrup will read from his new book, “Anishinaabe Syndicated: A View From the Rez,” at the Community Center at 1720 Big Lake Road in Cloquet beginning at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26. The reading will be followed by a book signing. The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Award-winning author and Sawyer resident Jim Northrup will read from his new book, “Anishinaabe Syndicated: A View From the Rez,” at the Community Center at 1720 Big Lake Road in Cloquet beginning at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26. The reading will be followed by a book signing. The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

In his book, which was published by the Minnesota Historical Society last month, Northrup chronicles the enormous changes that he witnessed from 1989 through 2001 in the areas of treaty rights, casino gambling, language renewal and tribal sovereignty. His observations were documented in his long running monthly newspaper column “Fond du Lac Follies,” which appears every month in “The Circle,” “The Native American Press” and “News from Indian Country,” all national American Indian newspapers.

Northrup is the author of two other books: “Walking the Rez Road” (Voyageur Press, 1993) and “Rez Road Follies, Canoes, Casinos, Computers, and Birchbark Baskets” (University of Minnesota Press, 1999). “Walking the Rez Road” won a Minnesota Book Award and a Northeast Minnesota Book Award.

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