Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native American Culture in Motion Métis Ho'onani: Hula Warrior is a

Ho'onani: Hula Warrior is a celebration of Hawaiian culture and an empowering story of a girl who learns to lead and learns to accept who she really is—and in doing so

One of her favorite dreams is of becoming a sled dog

She is four months pregnant

The triumphant result is Heart Berries

and soon there will be books and blankets and the big armchair by the fire

Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native American Culture in Motion Métis Ho'onani: Hula Warrior is aIn the early nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries promoted the translation of evangelical hymns into the Ojibwe language, regarding this music not only as a shared form of worship but also as a tool for rooting out Native cultural identity. But for many Minnesota Ojibwe today, the hymns emerged from this history of material and cultural dispossession to become emblematic of their identity as a distinct Native people. Author Michael McNally uses