Ross called for all Cherokees

For the traveling exhibition

she realizes that maybe she's not as far from home as she thought

Dustin Burnette

The Painted Drum - Large Print Tongva Ross called for all CherokeesThis is the large print edition. While appraising the estate of a New Hampshire family descended from a North Dakota Indian agent, Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwe artisan. And so begins an illuminating journey both backward and forward in time, following the strange passage of a powerful yet delicate instrument, and revealing the extraordinary lives it has touched and defined.