Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country

Traveling Through the Land of my Ancestors

Paperback, 152 pages

English language

Published March 30, 2023 by Daunt Books.

ISBN:
978-1-914198-50-2
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For more than twenty years Louise Erdrich has dazzled readers with the intricately wrought, deeply poetic novels which have won her a place among today's finest writers. Her nonfiction is equally eloquent, and this lovely memoir offers a vivid glimpse of the landscape, the people, and the long tradition of storytelling that give her work its magical, elemental force. In a small boat like those her Native American ancestors have used for countless generations, she travels to Ojibwe home ground, the islands of Lake of the Woods in southern Ontario. Her only companions are her new baby and the baby's father, an Ojibwe spiritual leader, on a pilgrimage to the sacred rock paintings their people have venerated for centuries as mystical "teaching and dream guides," and where even today Ojibwe leave offerings of tobacco in token of their power. With these paintings as backdrop, Erdrich summons to life the Ojibwe's …

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Subjects

  • Biography
  • Lake of the Woods
  • Nonfiction
  • Sociology
  • Travel
  • Family
  • Description and travel
  • Islands
  • Social life and customs
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
  • TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary
  • TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues
  • Authors, biography