From writing a biography on Ernest Hemingway in my twenties until now in my seventies, I have been fascinated with the American Indians in northern Michigan. Many of my books have been about them including The Smallpox Genocide of the Odawa Tribe at L'Arbre Croche, 1763: The History of a Native American People (2007), Odawa Language and Legends (2006), Sweetgrass and Smoke (2004), and Hemingway in Michigan (1966,1977,1999).