Wiijikiiwending

WiijikiiwendingJoin the colorful cast of characters in Wiijikiiwending as they learn how to share, develop healthy relationships, and navigate the living culture of the Anishinaabe. These stories, creatively developed by first speakers of Anishinaabemowin and written down with the help of several scholars and second language learners, ring with authenticity and humor. Ambe, bi wiijikiiwendidaa! Authors: Rosemarie DeBungie, Anna Gibbs, Nancy Jones, Gordon Jourdain,

Salmón focuses on an array of indigenous farmers who uphold traditional agricultural practices in the face of modern changes to food systems such as extensive industrialization and the genetic modification of food crops

Rifkin develops the concept of "settler time" to address how Native peoples are both consigned to the past and inserted into the present in ways that normalize non-native histories

And their contributions exemplify how Indigenous peoples are creatively applying tools of decolonization and critical research to re-create Indigenous thought and culture in a present day that rarely resembles the days of their ancestors

and listens to Mugoshin's teachings about the catcher of dreams

and Nanapush had outlived his six wives"—with unexpected humor that turns suddenly bittersweet at the story's close

Features include maps of ancestral lands

expressions and placenames from Canada and the United States

impacts of colonial violence on kinship

Developed as a companion to a public television series

historically have asserted a surrogate parentalism over Native children themselves

and ravishing world of myth

perhaps most dramatically with the arrival of Europeans into Minnesota territory