Oh awesome! I would love to talk about her books with you when I get to reading them (and yes, I am pretty sure that is going to be a 'when' and not an 'if', judging from The Birchbark House :D). Love Medicine will be going on my library pull list, I think!

Also, completely unrelated, but I was actually just thinking about you because I have a cold right now and I am therefore suffering under an overwhelming impulse to collapse in my chair and emit massive amounts of green slime. IF ONLY I COULD.