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Following My Spirit Home: A Collection of Paintings and Stories gender studies the sockeye salmon is moreA trip to Alaska and an epiphany at Mendenhall Glacier led artist Sam Zimmerman Zhaawanoogiizhik to return home to family and his Ojibwe culture, a journey captured in paintings and stories. When Sam Zimmerman decided to rededicate his energy and focus to painting in the late 2010s, he found himself drawn to the stories of his family and Ojibwe community. He wanted to capture these stories in images as well as words, and he began working with an