Text and color illustrations present the daily life of the Anishinabe, a Native American nation of the Great Lakes region, covering their shelters, work, food, clothing, recreation, religious beliefs, and contact with Europeans.
Living in the logging area of northern Wisconsin during the early 1900s, thirteen-year-old Jeremy helps his uncle carve a statue of a Chippewa maiden as a tribute to the vanishing culture of her people.
In 1911, a farm family is killed in Pluto, North Dakota, and three Ojibwe are lynched for the murders even though there is no evidence of their guilt; and years later, the events of the crime reverberate among the descendants of those involved.
Told in the alternating voices of a wise Chippewa Indian leader, and a young, embittered mixed-blood woman, the novel chronicles the drama of daily lives overshadowed by the clash of cultures and mythologies.
Cavalry soldier Scranton Roy sets the stage for generations of family patterns when he abandons his post during a raid on a peaceful Ojibwa village to chase after a dog carrying a baby strapped to its back, and settles down with the child in frontier Minnesota.
A young Chippewa girl follows a firefly as it reveals the secrets of the night, the many creatures that share her forest home, on her way to sleep. Inspired by Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha.".
