My Grandfathers Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation

My Grandfathers Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the ReservationWhen Ojibwe historian Brenda Child uncovered the Bureau of Indian Affairs file on her grandparents, it was an eye opening experience. The correspondence, full of incendiary comments on their morals and character, demonstrated the breathtakingly intrusive power of federal agents in the early twentieth century. While telling her own familys stories from the Red Lake Reservation, as well as stories of Ojibwe people around the Great Lakes, Child examines

she has a problem—how will her dress sing if it has no jingles

A Whirlwind Passed through Our Country expands the narrative of the Ghost Dance

Steeped in the visual traditions of beadwork

―Maggie Nelson

or a more dogged reporter in American journalism than Sierra Crane Murdoch

The authors—one Native

Now adapted for young people

Ojibwemodaa Endaayang

a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world

Told in eloquent layers that blend Native stories and metaphor with social and spiritual journeys

For the first time in print

Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love