Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community

Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of CommunityA groundbreaking exploration of the remarkable women in Native American communities. Too often ignored or underemphasized in favor of their male warrior counterparts, Native American women have played a more central role in guiding their nations than has ever been understood. Many Native communities were, in fact, organized around women's labor, the sanctity of mothers, and the wisdom of female elders. In this well researched and deeply felt account

Paul Windsor

One of the most revered novelists of our time—a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life—Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling

Amateur and professional historians will appreciate firsthand stories about reservation life during the mid-twentieth century

He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language

And what will happen when her parents disobey the law

But the price of success is estrangement from her cultural roots—and is it one she is willing to pay

In the process

Native activists named it the "black snake

This edition features a new foreword by Miguel Altieri

the moment

but the movement from experience to vision

I’m Telling a Story) is written for teachers