Memories Of Lac Du Flambeau Elders

Memories Of Lac Du Flambeau EldersWith a Brief History of Waaswaagoning Ojibweg by Leon Valliere, Jr. Photographs by Greg Gent. Memories of Lac du Flambeau Elders is a collection of interviews with fifteen Ojibwe elders of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians in northern Wisconsin. The elders, in their seventies and eighties when interviewed, all experienced enormous changes in their lifetimes. In their stories they discuss these changes as well as the traditions

short stories and plays encompass the soul of Native life

and the American Indian politics of the 1930s

And it was just the beginning

Whereas early accounts treated the Ghost Dance as a military or political movement

growing up together under the caring eyes of an extended family of parents and grandparents

What Grandma sees is a small feathery hump

and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted—the center of the world

Cochrane has assembled a narrative of a people

Margaret spots her family

flew from Denmark to Window Rock

the Iroquois Wars

for electricity