East
In Ojibwe ways, the east direction is where the Ojibwe come from. It is the spiritual direction.
Pine Township, Minnesota on the Goodhue Reservation, August, 1969
The blazing red and blue light from the cruiser careened off the windows, utensils, and faces of the women and men eating at the truck stop diner. No one paid much attention. Sher Braun moved slowly, paid the cashier—a woman in her mid-twenties who looked ten years older—with one rumpled dollar and some change damp with perspiration. The woman nodded absently, turning her back to the girl and the carnival colors lighting up the inside of the truck stop diner like it was the Fourth of July. Sher took the hunk of homemade corn-bread wrapped in plastic with a red sticker on the side holding it together and put it in her pack
