This dissertation examines the poetry of four contemporary Native North American women---Diane Glancy (Cherokee), Kimberly Blaeser (Ojibwe), Elizabeth Woody (Warm Springs, Wasco, Yakama, Navajo), and Luci Tapahonso (Navajo)---in relation to Native aesthetics and spirituality. This dissertation ...
Use this lesson plan to teach your students about the Ojibwe tribe. Students will read a text lesson that explains their lives, then apply understanding to an active project to show understanding. Related to this QuestionWhat is the Paiute tribe known for? What is the Abenaki tribe known for...
which refers to the “mischievous Puk-Wudgies” that killed the giant Kwasind by pelting him with pine cones. Longfellow was inspired by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, who in turn based his works on Ojibwe folklore as told to him by his part-Native American wife...
Bear Moon (Ojibwe) and Black Bear Moon (Tlingit) refer to the time when bear cubs are born. The Dakota called this the Raccoon Moon, and certain Algonquin peoples named it the Groundhog Moon. The Haida named it Goose Moon. The Cherokee names of “Month of the Bony Moon” and “...
Boucha, a Native American (Ojibwe), was a standout high school hockey player in Minnesota and a member of the 1972 U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team that won the Silver Medal at theSapporo, Japan,games. TheDetroit Red Wingschose Boucha in the second round of the1971 NHL Draft. The gift...
The Ojibwe are an indigenous North American people that originated in the Northeastern Atlantic coast region but now reside largely in southern Canada (e.g. Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, etc) and the northern Midwest of the United States (e.g. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, etc). The Ojibwe ...
Erdrich (Ojibwe); a comic conceived, written, and illustrated by Weyodi Old Bear (Comanche), Dale Deforest (Diné), and Lee Francis IV (Pueblo of Laguna); and transcripts of roundtable discussions with contemporary Native artists. Fifty plates spanning a range of media from monographic and ...
Where Wolves Don’t Die(Levine Querido, 2024), the excellent debut young adult novel from Ojibwe author and scholarAnton Treuer, tells the moving story of Ezra Cloud, a young Native American whose Minnesota high school doesn’t serve him very well academically or protect him from racist taunts...
This region was originally inhabited by thePotawatomi, Odawa, Sauk, Ojibwe, Illinois, Kickapoo (Kiikaapoi), Miami (Myaamia), Mascouten, Wea, Delaware, Winnebago, Menominee, and Mesquakie. Today there are 22,000 Native Americans living in Chicago. ...
Later on, in a second appearance, Flanagan discussed her Native American heritage — and how her name in the Ojibwe language means “speaks with a clear and loud voice woman.” “I'm a member of the White Earth nation and my family is the Wolf Clan. And the role of our clan ...