Portage Lake: Memories of an Ojibwe Childhood rez Elaina Albers of Northern California

Elaina Albers of Northern California holds a tape player to her womb so her baby can hear old songs in Karuk

Fairbanks restricts his study to markers that are far more elusive and difficult in terms of semantic ambiguity and their contribution to sentences and Ojibwe discourse

On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake

both of whom are descendents of Dakota prisoners of war

It is this sustaining way of life that Weso narrates for us in Good Seeds

Portage Lake: Memories of an Ojibwe Childhood rez Elaina Albers of Northern CaliforniaMaude Kegg's memories build a bridge to a time when building birch bark wigwams and harvesting turtles were still part of the everyday life of a native girl in the mid west. In this bilingual book, this elder of the Minnesota Anishinaabe reminisces about her childhood. An English translation of each story appears on pages facing the original Ojibwe text, and the editor John Nicholds has included a full Ojibwe English glossary with study aids.