The Birchbark House

The Birchbark HouseA fresh new look for this National Book Award finalist by Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Louise Erdrich! This is the first installment in an essential nine book series chronicling one hundred years in the life of one Ojibwe family and includes charming interior black and white artwork done by the author. She was named Omakakiins, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop. Omakakiins and her family live on an island in Lake Superior. Though

" In this new lyrical landscape

Shian will hand over her crown to the next princess

Apart from their usefulness in classrooms

Henry Mihesuah fell in love with and married a white woman and then served a dangerous tour of duty in the Marines in post–World War II China

who face their deadliest enemy yet

our source of strength and power a celebration of our lives

He also tackles the complicated issue of identity and details recent efforts and successes in cultural preservation and language revitalization

Each chapter offers information about the tribe's background

living in a midsize American city that may or may not be Minneapolis

and his affiliation with the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) were three important factors in his motivation for writing this book

The artists

Cody himself is a smart kid