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James C. Schaap

James Calvin Schaap is a retired English prof who has been something of a writer for most of the last 40 years. His latest work, a novel, Looking for Dawn, set in reservation country, is the story of two young women joined by their parents' mutual brokenness and, finally, a machine-shed sacrament of reconciliation. He writes and narrates a weekly essay on regional history for KWIT, public radio, Sioux City, Iowa. He and his wife Barbara live on the northern edge of Alton, Iowa, the Sgt. Floyd River a hundred yards or so from their back door. They have a cat--rather, he has them.

The Big Bluestem

Right now, our big bluestem are heavy with seeds, the patch closest to my window sky high, seven feet, I'm…
September 2, 2022

Saint Frederick

At 96 years old, Frederick Buechner left this vale of tears and passed, as my Native friends might say, into…
August 19, 2022

At the Reception

That she might marry seemed so unlikely that the possibility never even arose. Her physical condition--she's a quad, has been…
July 8, 2022

Dr. Sue

Susan La Flesche Picotte simply could not have dreamed of a hospital as a child. She wouldn't have known what…
April 29, 2022