Mixed Blood: Last Winter in America

Mixed Blood is the story of William W. Warren, a boy with an Ojibwe mother and white father, growing up at the frontier's edge. 

As a young man, his ability to speak several languages led him to work as an interpreter for the US Government, experiencing first-hand the corruption and politics that ultimately led to the tragedy at Sandy Lake, which decimated his people.

Torn between cultures and at odds with his former employers, Warren gathered the oral histories of the elders, writing them down to preserve them against the ravages of progress.

Finally, with health failing and manuscript in hand, he became determined to make a dangerous mid-winter journey to New York, facing sickness, bigotry, and laudanum addiction in an attempt to publish his work, and to find a cure for his ailing lungs.

Author Tim Warren McGlue uses historical records, letters, and photographs to bring us a meticulously researched fiction of how his ancestor, William Whipple Warren, created what would become, History of the Ojibway People, a first-of-its-kind collection of Native American stories and traditions still in print today.