Although the chimookoman, white people, encroach more and more on their land, life continues much as it always has. For as long as Omakayas can remember, she and her family have lived on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. Contents Girl from Spirit Island - Neebin (Summer): Birchbark house - Old tallow - Return - Andeg: Deydey's ghost story - Dagwaging (Fall): Fishtail's pipe - Pinch - Move - First snow - Biboon (Winter): Blue ferns: Grandma's story: Fishing the dark side of the lake - Visitor - Hunger: Nanabozho and Muskrat make an earth - Zeegwun (Spring) - Maple sugar time - One Horn's protection - Full circle - Note on the Ojibwa language - Glossary and pronounciation guide of Ojibwa terms Summary Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847. Object Details Author Erdrich, Louise "National Book Award finalist"-Cover. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art.
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