Lund, Bill
Summary: Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Ojibwa people, covering their daily life, customs, relations with the government and others, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973 LUNTreuer, Anton
Summary: Today's Ojibwe people have maintained a dazzling array of deep, beautiful, adaptive ways of connecting to the spiritual, natural, and human beings around them. Variations in Ojibwe cultural practices are, of course, as diverse as their homelands, which stretch across the Great Lakes, Canadian shield, pine forests, and prairie potholes of four US states and three Canadian provinces. And Ojibwe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minnesota Historical Society Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.897 TREJohnston, Basil.
Summary: Manitous are mysteries and spirits - the essences - that infuse and safeguard plants and animals, including humans, in all aspects of life. The tales of the manitous are simple in narration and complex in spirit, rich with incident and detail, and attempt to explain the mysterious ways of the natural world. Here are wily tricksters, timorous tree spirits, wise grandmothers, seductive maidens,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.783 JOHPeacock, Thomas (Thomas W.)
Summary: This teaching story tells how everything in creation follows the path in the great circle of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Afton Historical Society Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 977.004 PEABenton-Banai, Edward
Summary: Recounts the legends, customs, and history of the Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 BENJohnson, Michael
Summary: Ojibwa describes the history and culture of the people, and introduces their most important figures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books (U.S.) Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 JOHTodd, Anne M.
Summary: Explores the history and culture of these Indians from the woodlands of the Midwest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 2003
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Summary: Although she is mocked and mistreated by her two older sisters, an Indian maiden wins a mighty invisible warrior for her husband with her kind and honest heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 SANChild, Brenda J.
Summary: "When Uncle and Windy Girl attend a powwow, Windy watches the dancers and listens to the singers. She eats tasty food and joins family and friends around the campfire. Later, Windy falls asleep under the stars. Uncle's stories inspire visions in her head: a bowwow powwow, where all the dancers are dogs. In these magical scenes, Windy sees veterans in a Grand Entry, and a visiting drum group,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHIJohnston, Basil.
Summary: Contains twenty-two humorous stories about a community of Ojibway Indians living on a fictional Indian reservation in Canada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHErdrich, Louise.
Summary: Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HyperionBooks for Children 1999
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION ErdSummary: Side by side lessons
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Publisher / Publication Date: Printed for the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, John Westfall and Co., printers 1847
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2 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 497.3 DoughertyCall number: R NEL 970.1 Dougherty
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 1997
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Place a hold to request this item.Johnston, Basil.
Summary: The Ojibway Indians were first encountered by the French early in the seventeenth century along the northern shores of Lakes Huron and Superior. By the time Henry Wadsworth Longfellow immortalized them in The Song of Hiawatha, they had dispersed over large areas of Canada and the United States, becoming known as the Chippewas in the latter. A rare and fascinating glimpse of Ojibway culture...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHNingewance, Patricia M.
Summary: "What to say in the Anishinaabe language at airports, bush trails, ceremonies, conferences, courtrooms, emergencies, hospitals, on the phone, and while visiting".
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J OJIBWE 497.3 NINLevine, Michelle.
Summary: The Ojibwe have lived in North America for hundreds of years. These native peoples originally grew crops, gathered wild rice, and tapped maple trees for their sap. But in 1783, when the United States gained its independence, it simultaneously gained control of the Ojibwe homeland. Government leaders forced the Ojibwe to live on reservations, sent Ojibwe children to boarding schools, and made...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "For the Anishinaabeg people, who span a vast geographic region from the Great Lakes to the Plains and beyond, stories are vessels of knowledge. They are bagijiganan, offerings of the possibilities within Anishinaabeg life. Existing along a broad narrative spectrum, from aadizookaanag (traditional or sacred narratives) to dibaajimowinan (histories and news)--as well as everything in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 CENChild, Brenda J.
Summary: Highlights the impact women have had on Native American life, describing the lives of Madeleine Cadotte, who mediated fur trades and Gertrude Buckanaga, a community activist who helped impoverished Indian families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.0049 CHISummary: We are excited to bring you Diba Jimooyung. Found here are many of the stories of Anishinabe men and women from older times & before the coming of Europeans & along with stories and accounts that happened after European and American contact. It is our story of our experience here on Turtle Island (North American), our homeland. The writing of Diba Jimooyung has been no small undertaking, nor is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, Ziibiwing Cultural Society 2005
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Contents: The basics -- Getting started -- Chippewa to English -- English to Chippewa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: s.n.] 1991
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Summary: "Ojibwe tradition calls for fathers to walk their children through the world, sharing the ancient understanding "that we are all, animate and inanimate alike, living on the one pure breath with which the Creator gave life to the Universe." In this new entry in the Seedbank series, an intimate series of letters to the six-year-old son from whom he was estranged, Richard Wagamese fulfills this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WAGAMESE, RICHARD WAGErdrich, Louise.
Summary: Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005