Title:
Onigamiising : seasons of an Ojibwe year / Linda LeGarde Grover.
ISBN:
9781517903442
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Publication Information:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
Physical Description:
xiii, 201 pages ; 21 cm
Contents:
When the sky sings -- Minikwe niibish, the leaf we drink -- Onishishin: it's all pretty, it's all good -- Curtains, calico, and creative living -- A wedding shower and a four-year-old girl -- Sewing Ojibwe ribbon skirts in onigamiising -- The Ojibwe word for moccasin is -- Reservations, homelands, and extended family ties -- To catch a baby's dream -- "What's a hanky for?" -- Our heart and future -- Summer is coming to onigamiising -- Niibin ; summer -- Chickens, eggs, and stories -- The summer of our favorite toy -- Weeds and wildflowers -- Terry and rachel enter the landscape of nanaboozhoo -- The stone tomahawk -- An impromptu reunion -- Shii-waaboo -- Life lessons from my Dad and Jim Thorpe -- Buckskin ladies, ribbon dress girls -- Aniin miinik ish tiktik? Berry time! -- The girl cousins throw a party -- Tea with scones and stories -- The gift that grows out of the water -- When we cook manoomin -- Ready for dinner -- Dagwaagin ; fall -- Old traditions for a new school year -- The mystery of Indian corn -- To speak Ojibwemowin -- Going out to eat -- How much of an Indian are you? -- We honor Native veterans -- When grandmother went to school -- Falling to thanksgiving -- Cradleboards and portable babies -- Memory, creative living, and fun crocheting from rags -- Migwechiwendam: to think thankfully -- Biboon ; winter -- Nanaboozhoo and Nokomis -- Coal, clinkers, and staying warm -- Trying to make lugalette like my grandmother -- Snow shoveling, chocolate, and a pretty kitchen -- Storytelling seasons -- A soldier on leave -- Cold feet and new beginnings -- A rabbit skin baby blanket -- The gift and privilege of parenting -- A cousin gets in touch with a cousin -- Henry meets Santa Claus -- Toot-cair -- Memories rose like fabric-scented steam -- Cheeseburgers for breakfast -- The exiles -- The elders of winter and the youth of spring.
Summary:
Long before it came to be known as Duluth, the land at the western tip of Lake Superior was known to the Ojibwe as Onigamiising, "the place of the small portage." There the Ojibwe lived in keeping with the seasons, moving among different camps for hunting and fishing, for cultivating and gathering, for harvesting wild rice and maple sugar. In Onigamiising Linda LeGarde Grover accompanies us through this cycle of the seasons, one year in a lifelong journey on the path to Mino Bimaadiziwin, the living of a good life. In fifty short essays, Grover reflects on the spiritual beliefs and everyday practices that carry the Ojibwe through the year and connect them to this northern land of rugged splendor. As the four seasons unfold—from Ziigwan (Spring) through Niibin and Dagwaagin to the silent, snowy promise of Biboon—the award-winning author writes eloquently of the landscape and the weather, work and play, ceremony and tradition and family ways, from the homey moments shared over meals to the celebrations that mark life’s great events. Now a grandmother, a Nokomis, beginning the fourth season of her life, Grover draws on a wealth of stories and knowledge accumulated over the years to evoke the Ojibwe experience of Onigamiising, past and present, for all time.
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OCLC Number:
ocn975998415
Availability:
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