Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories medicine and nature

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Erdrich's wry sensibility

the Seven Grandfathers and the little boy

The events of Dorothy Dora Whipple’s life resonate with Ojibwe life and culture through the twentieth century

Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories medicine and natureA language carries a people's memories, whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences, as communal history, or as humorous tales. This collection of stories from Anishinaabe elders offers a history of a people at the same time that it seeks to preserve the language of that people. Based on interviews Treuer conducted with ten elders this anthol ogy presents the elders' stories transcribed in Ojibwe with English translation on facing pages.