Making the Carry: The Lives of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater

Making the Carry: The Lives of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis LinklaterAn extraordinary illustrated biography of a Mtis man and Anishinaabe woman navigating great changes in their homeland along the U. S. Canada border in the early twentieth century. John Linklater, of Anishinaabeg, Cree, and Scottish ancestry, and his wife, Tchi Ki Wis, of the Lac La Croix First Nation, lived in the canoe and border country of Ontario and Minnesota from the 1870s until the 1930s. During that time, the couple experienced radical

This Unktomi story is a local version my mother and her siblings heard from their father

the credit for Native persistence rested with the Anishinaabeg themselves

An experienced activist

place and belonging

retaining the simplicity of their language so as not to interpret their words through a Western lens

There is so much bottle-dark beauty here

Greek constellations and astronomical objects of interest are included along with the Ojibwe constellations organized by the four seasons and north circumpolar stars

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee looks at Native American culture as it exists today--and the fight to preserve language and traditions

gatherings

26 illustrations

indigenous educational leadership programs

it follows a death-defying young Cherokee horse-diver who