Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year drum The book also shows us

The book also shows us the vital cultures that allow Native people to face their challenges—including their all-important voting-rights struggle—with courage and determination

The contributors include scholar-activists in the fields of ethnobotany

Sharyl and Windy Downwind and their children travel from their home on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota to powwows all around the region

Jimmy learns more about his Lakota heritage and

Through traditional native tales

Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year drum The book also shows usWinner of the 2018 Minnesota Book Award for memoir. Long before it came to be known as Duluth, the land at the western tip of Lake Superior was known to the Ojibwe as Onigamiising, "the place of the small portage." There the Ojibwe lived in keeping with the seasons, moving among different camps for hunting and fishing, for cultivating and gathering, for harvesting wild rice and maple sugar. In Onigamiising, Linda LeGarde Grover accompanies us through