Gordon Peterson

Ozhoma

Fiction

“A story told but never heard by the privileged: the immigrants and their progeny. The story of community, culture, family, and living the existential dilemma in the woodlands and on the prairies of what could never be their American dream. The story of little Ullie Eagle and other children sacrificed for profit, power, and prestige. As I read Dr. Jorgensen’s first book, Ozhoma, I was reminded of a quote attributed to Martin Luther King Jr., who said, ‘The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.’ This story exemplifies that very long arc that bends ever so slowly and slightly for our country’s first people, the many nations of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. It is also a reminder that the arc that bends toward justice does so only with the help of individuals—individuals like Dr. Jorgensen.”