Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year drum as they work to manage

as they work to manage tribal enrollment and social services

Many American Indians—past and present—have had the ability to use power to access wisdom

What a thoughtful celebration

The book also shows us the vital cultures that allow Native people to face their challenges—including their all-important voting-rights struggle—with courage and determination

Sharyl and Windy Downwind and their children travel from their home on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota to powwows all around the region

Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year drum as they work to manageWinner of the 2018 Minnesota Book Award for memoir. Long before it came to be known as Duluth, the land at the western tip of Lake Superior was known to the Ojibwe as Onigamiising, "the place of the small portage." There the Ojibwe lived in keeping with the seasons, moving among different camps for hunting and fishing, for cultivating and gathering, for harvesting wild rice and maple sugar. In Onigamiising, Linda LeGarde Grover accompanies us through