Sugar Bush Babies: Stories of My Ojibwe Grandmother

Sugar Bush Babies: Stories of My Ojibwe GrandmotherA memoir of lessons learned from an Ojibwe grandmother during the time of Relocation. Why, her mother asked, did Janis keep running away from kindergarten? She wanted to go home. But not to the house they had just moved to in Duluth, with its gravel yard and traffic noise. She was a country girl, and home was the log cabin among the wildflowers on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in Bena, Minnesota. Knowing they were now going to stay in the city,

children rush to learn

This bright and vivacious book from two Native creators celebrates the energy

At age six

overeagerness to punish Indians

In this unique collaboration

"we stunned insects dangle

fleeing the potato famine

from bryologists to those interested in natural history and the environment

Rooted in Indigenous teachings

Ousamequin (Massasoit)

and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons

In this second book in the Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series