Portage Lake: Memories of an Ojibwe Childhood

Portage Lake: Memories of an Ojibwe ChildhoodMaude Kegg's memories build a bridge to a time when building birch bark wigwams and harvesting turtles were still part of the everyday life of a native girl in the mid west. In this bilingual book, this elder of the Minnesota Anishinaabe reminisces about her childhood. An English translation of each story appears on pages facing the original Ojibwe text, and the editor John Nicholds has included a full Ojibwe English glossary with study aids.

Illustrated by Angela Erdrich

The title of the book refers to the forty acres of Montana land Welch's father once leased from a Blackfeet family called Earthboy

when Dez's grandmother becomes too sick

an artist and poet

Some of the contributors are scholars

and the wound of her missing mother resurfaces

who captured the personalities of America's first generation of celebrities (including the figure of Andrew Jackson immortalized on the twenty-dollar bill)

To complicate his fears

Sitting Bull's savvy manipulation of his media image (he had an agent) and the author's own Comanche forebears

Mihesuah first examines how American Indigenous women have been perceived and depicted by non-Natives

Michael Washington

conveyed by John G