Ojibwe Waasa Inaabidaa: We Look in All Directions

Ojibwe Waasa Inaabidaa: We Look in All DirectionsDeveloped as a companion to a public television series, this book tells the story of the Anishinaabe Ojibwe people, their history, and their culture from precontact times to the present. Chapter 1 discusses oral tradition and summarizes creation stories and migration stories that link the Ojibwe to other culturally and linguistically similar indigenous groups. The structure and nature of the Ojibwe language is discussed, as well as its importance to

Early twentieth-century ethnologist Frances Densmore recorded traditions and techniques relayed by dozens of Ojibwe women to create this invaluable handbook perfect for readers interested in Native American art and culture

or a more dogged reporter in American journalism than Sierra Crane Murdoch

Carroll is particularly interested in indigenous environmental governance along the continuum of resource-based and relationship-based practices and relates how the Cherokee Nation

how silver mined in Bolivia funded economic development in rural China and wars waged by the Spanish empire

the symbolic stories of contemporary Natives

Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science

"Knives" tells of a homely butcher's assistant

On the Pacific front during World War II

Rich in insight and bold in execution

as they involved violent attacks on often defenseless Native communities

a meal for his Menominee family took an entire year to plan

they are drawn closer by their shared friendship