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Grandmother's dreamcatcher

1998
While spending a week with her grandmother who, like her is a Chippewa Indian, Kimmy learns to make a dreamcatcher which allows the sleeper to have only sweet dreams.

Shingebiss

an Ojibwe legend
1997
Shingebiss the duck bravely challenges the Winter Maker and manages to find enough food to survive a long, harsh winter.

The legend of the lady's slipper

2001
One winter, when the people of her village become terribly ill, Running Flower braves the snow and freezing cold to race to the village on the other side of the forest for medicine.

Ininatig's gift of sugar

traditional native sugarmaking
1993
Describes how Indians have relied on the sugar maple tree for food and tells how an Anishinabe Indian in Minnesota continues his people's traditions by teaching students to tap the trees and make maple sugar.

The sacred harvest

Ojibway wild rice gathering
1992
Glen Jackson, Jr., an eleven-year-old Ojibway Indian in northern Minnesota, goes with his father to harvest wild rice, the sacred food of his people.

Rez life

an Indian's journey through reservation life
2012
Novelist David Treuer examines Native American reservation life--past and present--illuminating misunderstood contemporary issues of sovereignty, treaty rights, and natural-resource conservation while also exploring crime and poverty, casinos and wealth, and the preservation of native language and culture.

Ladder to the sky

how the gift of healing came to the Ojibway Nation : a legend retold
1989
Recounts the legend of how the gift of healing came to the Ojibway people.

SkySisters

2000
As two young Ojibway sisters set off across the north country to Coyote Hill to see the SkySpirits dance, Grandmother Moon lights the way.

The legend of the lady slipper

an Ojibwe tale
1999
In this retelling of an Ojibwe tale, a girl's act of bravery to save her family leads to the appearance in the world of the delicate and tender flower called the lady's slipper.

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