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American literature Indian authors Ojibwa (Indiens) Romans Ojibwa (Indiens) Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Ojibwa Indians Ojibwa Indians Fiction Ojibwa Indians Folklore Ojibwa Indians Juvenile fiction Ojibwa Indians Social life and customs Ojibwa mythology Schools Juvenile fictionTreuer, 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 TRENorthrup, Jim
Summary: "Between 1989 and 2001, Indian Country saw enormous changes in treaty rights, casino gambling, language renewal, and tribal sovereignty. Jim Northrup, a thoroughly modern traditional Ojibwe man who writes a monthly syndicated newspaper column, the Fond du Lac Follies, witnessed it all. With humor sometimes gentle, sometimes biting, sometimes broad, these excerpts tally the changes, year by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minnesota Historical Society Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.897 NORWagamese, Richard
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 WAGWeliver, Phyllis
Summary: "Phyllis Weliver was in the vanguard of those who first became ill from the novel coronavirus. Ten months later, she had recovered enough to return to work. Moving from the city to a woodland cottage above a glacier lake in order to regain health, Weliver reflects on the process of integrating mind/body health with the natural world. As she recovers from long-haul COVID, the author draws...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Medical WeliverJohnston, 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 JOHChild, 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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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Part I, Pembina Chippewa drum songs. Soldier's honor song ; New grass dance song ; Rock dance song ; Go homing song ; Love song/Round dance ; Buffalo song ; Many eagles set sun dance song -- Part II, French songs, from elders to children. Le matelot de Montréal = The sailor from Montreal ; Chanson à boire = Drinking song ; Le garçon le moins heureux = The most unhappy fellow ; Napoléon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN PLALuby, Brittany
Summary: "In this lyrical story-poem, written in Anishinaabemowin and English, a child and grandmother explore their surroundings, taking pleasure in the familiar sights that each new season brings. We accompany them through warm summer days full of wildflowers, bees and blueberries, then fall, when bears feast before hibernation and forest mushrooms are ripe for harvest. Winter mornings begin in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LUBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LUBBenton-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 BENErdrich, 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
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ERDJohnston, 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 JOHSummary: "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 CENQuigley, Dawn
Summary: "Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little differently than anyone else on her Ojibwe reservation. It always seems like her mom, her kokum (grandma), and her teacher have a lot to learn--about how good Jo Jo is at cleaning up, what makes a good rhyme, and what it means to be friendly. Even though Jo Jo loves her #1 best friend Mimi (who is a cat),...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE QUICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE QUILaPensée, Elizabeth
Summary: "Anishinaabe culture and storytelling meet Alice in Wonderland in this coming-of-age graphic novel that explores Indigenous and gender issues through a fresh yet familiar looking glass. Aimée, a non-binary Anishinaabe middle-schooler, is on a class trip to offer gifts to Paayehnsag, the water spirits known to protect the land. While stories are told about the water spirits and the threat of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press Ltd 2022