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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
200 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Abandoned as an infant at the State Public School in Owatonna, Minnesota, Peter Razor is raised by abusive workers who thought of him as nothing more than "a dirty Injun." Cut off from his family and his heritage, he turns inward, forced to learn about the world on his own. After failed attempts to run away from the orphanage, he is indentured by the state to an abusive, reclusive farm family. Beaten, poorly fed, clothed in rags, and worked like slave...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On June 27, 1868, Hole in the Day (Bagone-giizhig) the Younger left Crow Wing, Minnesota, for Washington, DC, to fight the planned removal of the Mississippi Ojibwe to a reservation at White Earth. Several miles from his home, the self-styled leader of all the Ojibwe was stopped by at least twelve Ojibwe men and fatally shot [...] Anton Treuer focuses on interactions with other tribes, the role of Ojibwe culture and tradition, and interviews with...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Novelist David Treuer examines Native American reservation life--past and present--illuminating misunderstood contemporary issues of sovereignty, treaty rights, and natural-resource conservation while also exploring crime and poverty, casinos and wealth, and the preservation of native language and culture.
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
198 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Today's Ojibwe people have maintained a dazzling array of deep, beautiful, adaptive ways of connecting to the spiritual, natural, and human beings around them. Variations in Ojibwe cultural practices are, of course, as diverse as their homelands, which stretch across the Great Lakes, Canadian shield, pine forests, and prairie potholes of four US states and three Canadian provinces. And Ojibwe culture, like every other culture, has changed over time....
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
184 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Anton Treuer has been at the forefront of the battle to revitalize Ojibwe for many years. In this impassioned argument, he discusses the interrelationship between language and culture, the problems of language loss, strategies and tactics for resisting, and the inspiring stories of successful language warriors. He recounts his own single-minded and sometimes hilarious struggle to learn Ojibwe as an adult, and he depicts the astonishing success of...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
". . . the memory of my mother came to me like a drifting scent in the breeze, swirling through the branches of a nearby cedar tree. I was drawn back [35 years] to the day I learned she had passed on. But that autumn day of 1973 did not grip me with deep sadness, the burden of never seeing her again. I was looking at that day from a new angle, a distant view that seemed to suggest a new, untold story. I was suddenly more than curious about who
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Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
x, 145 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Linda LeGarde Grover interweaves family and Ojibwe history with stories from Misaabekong (the place of the giants) on Lake Superior"--
Long before there was a Duluth, Minnesota, the massive outcropping that divides the city emerged from the ridge of gabbro rock running along the westward shore of Lake Superior. A great westward migration carried the Ojibwe people to this place, the Point of Rocks. Against this backdropMisaabekong, the place of the...
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
447 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The Red Lake Nation has a unique and deeply important history. Unlike every other reservation in Minnesota, Red Lake holds its land in common -- and, consequently, the tribe retains its entire reservation land base. The people of Red Lake developed the first modern indigenous democratic governance system in the United States, decades before any other tribe, but they also maintained their system of hereditary chiefs. The tribe never surrendered to...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xviii, 226 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Between 1989 and 2001, Indian Country saw enormous changes in treaty rights, casino gambling, language renewal, and tribal sovereignty. Jim Northrup, a thoroughly modern traditional Ojibwe man who writes a monthly syndicated newspaper column, the Fond du Lac Follies, witnessed it all. With humor sometimes gentle, sometimes biting, sometimes broad, these excerpts tally the changes, year by year, as he spears walleye, raises a grandson, harvests wild...
Author
Publisher
Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (18 pages) : color illustrations
Language
Ojibwa
Description
Chronicles the childhood of Minnesota Anishinaabe elder Maude Kegg of the Mille Lacs Reservation, and explores the traditional Anishinaabe culture as they came into contact with Euro-American settlers in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the 1960s and 1970s, Dennis Banks and Russell Means helped lead the fight for Native civil rights. They organized protests and asked the US government to stop mistreating Native Americans. Dennis Banks and Russell Means: Native American Activists explores these activists' lives and their legacies. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics,...
Author
Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container.
Language
English
Description
Abandoned as an infant at the State Public School in Owatonna, Minnesota, Peter Razor is raised by abusive workers who thought of him as nothing more than "a dirty Injun." Cut off from his family and his heritage, he turns inward, forced to learn about the world on his own. After failed attempts to run away from the orphanage, he is indentured by the state to an abusive, reclusive farm family. Beaten, poorly fed, clothed in rags, and worked like slave...
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xi, 155 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A trip to Alaska and an epiphany at Mendenhall Glacier resulted led the artist to return home to family and his Ojibwe culture, a journey captured in paintings and stories. -- Adapted from page [4] cover.
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"While telling her own family's stories from the Red Lake Reservation, as well as stories of Ojibwe people around the Great Lakes, Brenda Child examines the disruptions and the continuities in daily work, family life, and culture faced by Ojibwe people of her grandparents' generation--a generation raised with traditional lifeways. The challenges were great: government employees and programs controlled reservation economies and opposed traditional...