Ottawa Stories from the Spring: Anishinaabe Dibaadjimowinan Wodi Gaa Binjibaamigak Wodi Mookodjiwong E Zhinikaadek

Ottawa Stories from the Spring: Anishinaabe Dibaadjimowinan Wodi Gaa Binjibaamigak Wodi Mookodjiwong E ZhinikaadekSometimes things come to people out of the blue and seemingly for a reason. The Anishinaabe word for this is nigika. The stories contained in this collection reached Howard Webkamigad nearly eighty years after they were recorded, after first being kept in their original copper wire format by the American Philosophical Society and later being converted onto cassettes and held by Dr. James McClurken of Michigan State University. These rich tales,

Seven slaves cross the big river to freedom

"A marvelous tour of poetic passion inside a world of warriors

energetic interventions

Westerman draws on both English and the Dakota language to celebrate the long journey along sunflower-lined highways of the tallgrass prairies of the Great Plains that returns her to a place filled with “more than history

to assert a new kind of identity for Whitehead

essential voice in poetry

expressions and placenames from Canada and the United States

–Dakota War of 1862—nor did it end there

and changing family dynamics on the fictional Mozhay Point reservation

Piece by piece

contemporary kin

and the American Revolution