A Bag Worth a Pony: The Art of the Ojibwe Bandolier Bag

A Bag Worth a Pony: The Art of the Ojibwe Bandolier BagBandolier bags, or gashkibidaaganagthe large, heavily beaded shoulder bags made and worn by several North American Indian tribes around the Great Lakesare prized cultural icons here and around the world. From the 1870s to the present day, Ojibwe bead artists of Minnesota have been especially well known for their lively, creative designs. Neighboring Dakota people would trade a pony for a beautiful beaded bag. Over the years, non Indian collectors and

“A small masterpiece of compelling

an unexpected visitor arrives

Water is the first medicine

He reveals the various ways in which graduates struggled to make sense of their lives and selectively drew upon their school experience in negotiating personal and tribal survival in a world increasingly dominated by white men

making poems that are amalgams of poetry and proclamation

Having spent all of his life steeped in and influenced by linear Western science

Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school

on our relationship to the animal world

This book is about a Red Road

and mysterious second meanings

and Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Sherry Quan Lee