Ogimawkwe Mitigwaki: Queen of the Woods environment In a series of powerful

In a series of powerful and moving documents

and postcolonial theory

This is Ojibwe entertainment at its finest

Beautifully illustrated by Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley

a student of anthropology whom he met in New York City

Ogimawkwe Mitigwaki: Queen of the Woods environment In a series of powerfulSimon Pokagon was a talented writer, advocate for the Pokagon Potawatomi community, and tireless self promoter. In 1899, shortly after his death, Pokagon s novel Ogimawkwe Mitigwaki (Queen of the Woods) only the second ever published by an American Indian appeared. It was intended to be a testimonial to the traditions, stability, and continuity of the Potawatomi in a rapidly changing world. Read today, Queen of the Woods is evidence of the author s