David Beaulieu is an Emeritus Professor of Education Policy at Arizona State University where he was also the Director of the Center for Indian Education and editor of the Journal of Indian Education. He is currently a Professor of Education Policy and Director of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. An enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe from White Earth, he was formerly the Director of the Office of Indian Education at the US Department of Education. In 2005 he was President of the National Indian Education Association. He has been at various times Chairman of the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Director of Indian Education, Vice President at Sinte Gleska Tribal College Rosebud South Dakota and the Commissioner of Human Rights in the administration of Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson.  “Wine and Cheese” is from a collection of John Clement Beaupre stories in the unpublished “The Strange Empire of John Clement Beaupre.” Other selections from the “Strange Empire” have appeared in a collection of Ojibwe prose Stories Migrating Home and a collection of Ojibwe poetry Traces in Blood, Bone and Stone both edited by Kim Blaeser.