Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories medicine Jessie Oonark

Jessie Oonark

Erdrich's wry sensibility

Sherman dispels outdated notions of Native American fare—no fry bread or Indian tacos here—and no European staples such as wheat flour

and nature

This book is organized around five cross-cultural themes: Children

Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories medicine Jessie OonarkA language carries a people's memories, whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences, as communal history, or as humorous tales. This collection of stories from Anishinaabe elders offers a history of a people at the same time that it seeks to preserve the language of that people. Based on interviews Treuer conducted with ten elders this anthol ogy presents the elders' stories transcribed in Ojibwe with English translation on facing pages.