Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year

Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe YearWinner of the 2018 Minnesota Book Award for memoir. Long before it came to be known as Duluth, the land at the western tip of Lake Superior was known to the Ojibwe as Onigamiising, "the place of the small portage." There the Ojibwe lived in keeping with the seasons, moving among different camps for hunting and fishing, for cultivating and gathering, for harvesting wild rice and maple sugar. In Onigamiising, Linda LeGarde Grover accompanies us through

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first published in 1916

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