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21) The beet queen
Author
Series
North Dakota volume 2
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
In the early 1930s, Karl and his sister Mary Adare, arrive by boxcar in Argus, a small off-reservation town in North Dakota. Orphaned, they look to their mother's sister Fritzie and her husband for refuge.
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 1
Language
English
Description
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. For as long as Omakayas can remember, she and her family have lived on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. Although the chimookoman, white people, encroach more and more on their land, life continues much as it always has. Every summer the family builds...
25) Ojibwe
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the Ojibwe people, discussing their history, traditions, and daily life.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation, and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's inheritance.
"Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that was entirely not her fault, she's stuck working to pay back her Auntie Daunis for repairs to the...
Author
Series
Legend series (Kathy-Jo Wargin) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this retelling of an Ojibwe Indian tale, a mother bear loses sight of her two cubs as they all attempt to escape a forest fire by swimming across Lake Michigan.
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 3
Language
English
Description
In 1852, forced by the United States government to leave their beloved Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker, fourteen-year-old Omokayas and her Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xix, 168 pages : map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Larry Amik Smallwood had the gift of making people laugh. Of all the teachings Amik strove to pass along to his students, he cherished most the humor of his Ojibwe people. In this bilingual collection, Amik tells of his many adventures and those of others he knew. Learning to speak English in the first grade. A spectacular mishap while harvesting wild rice. Using an old blanket as an invitation to dance. Tales of his hilarious drunkard uncle. With...
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells of the culture and traditions of the Chippewa Indians of the Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation in Wisconsin. Describes changes that occurred with the arrival of the white man and adaptations that have been made to insure survival in modern society.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (18 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 discussion guide (2 sheets ; 28 cm)
Language
English
Description
Created for students, agency personnel, and general viewers, this 18-minute DVD presents a brief history of treaty-reserved tribal harvesting rights in the upper Great Lakes region. Viewers are introduced to 21st century Ojibwe harvesters and the natural resource agency that manages treaty resources on behalf of its Ojibwe member tribes--The Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC)"--Container.
37) Chippewa customs
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1979.
Physical Desc
xii, 204 pages, 43 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Wisconsin's rich tradition of sustainability rightfully includes its First Americans, who along with Aldo Leopold, John Muir, and Gaylord Nelson shaped its landscape and informed its "earth ethics." This collection of Native biographies, one from each of the twelve Indian nations of Wisconsin, introduces the reader to some of the most important figures in Native sustainability: from anti-mining activists like Walt Bresette (Red Cliff Ojibwe) and...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When a young woman from the Ojibwa tribe asks McKnight for shelter from her violent boyfriend, McKnight agrees. But after letting her stay in one of his cabins, he finds her gone the next morning. His search for her brings on a host of suspects, bruising encounters, and a thickening web of crime, all obscured by the relentless whiplash of brutal snowstorms. From the secret world of the Ojibwa reservation to the Canadian border and deep into the silent...
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