My Grandfathers Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation environment He recounts his own sometimes

He recounts his own sometimes hilarious struggle to learn Ojibwe as an adult

and the land are themes that shape the existence of the Inuits of the Far North

longer narrative sequences

these original reminiscences of elders of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe bring to life the creative genius of some of Ojibwe country's most gifted storytellers

imprisoned instead at Camp Kearney in Davenport

My Grandfathers Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation environment He recounts his own sometimesWhen Ojibwe historian Brenda Child uncovered the Bureau of Indian Affairs file on her grandparents, it was an eye opening experience. The correspondence, full of incendiary comments on their morals and character, demonstrated the breathtakingly intrusive power of federal agents in the early twentieth century. While telling her own familys stories from the Red Lake Reservation, as well as stories of Ojibwe people around the Great Lakes, Child examines