Ottawa Stories from the Spring: Anishinaabe Dibaadjimowinan Wodi Gaa Binjibaamigak Wodi Mookodjiwong E Zhinikaadek visual arts Richard Wagamese finds lessons in

Richard Wagamese finds lessons in both the mundane and sublime as he muses on the universe

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We accompany them through warm summer days full of wildflowers

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Ottawa Stories from the Spring: Anishinaabe Dibaadjimowinan Wodi Gaa Binjibaamigak Wodi Mookodjiwong E Zhinikaadek visual arts Richard Wagamese finds lessons inSometimes things come to people out of the blue and seemingly for a reason. The Anishinaabe word for this is nigika. The stories contained in this collection reached Howard Webkamigad nearly eighty years after they were recorded, after first being kept in their original copper wire format by the American Philosophical Society and later being converted onto cassettes and held by Dr. James McClurken of Michigan State University. These rich tales,