Gii-Nitaa-Aadisooke: Ojibwe Legends from Lac Seul

Gii-Nitaa-Aadisooke: Ojibwe Legends from Lac SeulTold by Christie Ningewance. Written by Patricia Ningewance. Ojibwe with English translation In this collection of translated Ojibwe legends fro Lac Seul, Ontario are many stories about the wondrous beings that still live on. Biipiigiwisens lived with his nine older brothers and they married Thunder Bird Women. Jakaabes was a tiny boy who wore a coat made out of a bird skin and lived with his older sister. He snared the sun. A band of Nenaderthal like

has nearly destroyed life itself

we are jarred into wondering how we make our own meanings when the present is so immediately confronted by the past (or vice versa)

Making sense of her family

Ringing with insight and honesty

Mann examines such fascinating subjects as the connections between malaria and slavery

Join Waasigwan (Shining Feather) as he navigates racism against African Americans in an Ojibwe community

and learning about Métis history

One hundred and forty years before Gerda Lerner established women's history as a specialized field in 1972

a little girl who travels with her grandmother onto the tundra

She just can't stop slipping back and forth in time

compassionate

She sees the spirits that surround her