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Summary: Highlights the impact women have had on Native American life, describing the lives of Madeleine Cadotte, who mediated fur trades and Gertrude Buckanaga, a community activist who helped impoverished Indian families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ladyslipper Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.5 MORSummary: It is a harrowing tale of perseverance and survival that unfolds during the great copper rush of 1845, when newlyweds Angelique, a young Ojibway, and Charlie, her voyageur husband, are left stranded throughout a brutal winter on Lake Superior's Isle Royale where Angelique is ultimately forced to face her inner demons and beliefs as the unbelievably beautiful, yet treacherous wilderness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Contents: Introduction -- Prologue -- Earliest memories -- A young girl, close to Aki (Mother Earth) -- Early education -- More education and schooling -- Ancestors -- Trying to belong -- Apprenticeship with Nodjimahkwe -- Epilogue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2006
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977 KEEKeewaydinoquay.
Contents: Prologue -- Earliest memories -- A young girl, close to Aki (Mother Earth) -- Early education -- More education and schooling -- Ancestors -- Trying to belong -- Apprenticeship with Nodjimahkwe -- Epilogue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.004 PESKeewaydinoquay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 PES1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 977 KEE
Hamilton, Steve
Summary: "When a young woman from the Ojibwa tribe asks McKnight for shelter from her violent boyfriend, McKnight agrees. But after letting her stay in one of his cabins, he finds her gone the next morning. His search for her brings on a host of suspects, bruising encounters, and a thickening web of crime, all obscured by the relentless whiplash of brutal snowstorms. From the secret world of the Ojibwa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2000
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMLaDuke, Winona.
Summary: A novel on the Anishinaabe Indians, tracing their struggle to restore their culture and regain their land. From the Great Sioux Uprising of the 1860s, to the 1970s occupation by Indian militants of the Minnesota White Earth Reservation, to the present problems of alcoholism and sexual abuse. A first novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 1997
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Summary: A tale set in a world of reversing evolution and a growing police state follows pregnant thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, who investigates her biological family while awaiting the birth of a child who may emerge as a member of a primitive human species.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERDCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Erdrich 2017Erdrich, Louise
Summary: The world as we know it is ending. As Cedar Hawk Songmaker goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ERDErdrich, Louise.
Summary: One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Erdrich 2012Erdrich, Louise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2004
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Summary: "Chelsea is missing, but she's not gone... In this moving graphic novel, thirteen-year-old Reanna grieves the loss of her older sister. Can she find comfort through her family's Ojibwe traditions? It's been a year since Reanna's sister, Chelsea, went missing on her way home from school. Without any idea of what happened, Reanna and her family struggle to find closure. Driven from their home by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 STOTreuer, Anton
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minnesota Historical Society Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.897 TREJohnson, Anna Rose
Summary: "Lucy, a spirited French-Ojibwe orphan, is sent to the stormy waters of Lake Superior to live with a mysterious family of lighthouse- keepers -- and, she hopes, to find the legendary necklace her father spent his life seeking."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024