My Grandfathers Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation Ojibwe Champion bull-rider Joe Willie Wolfchild

Champion bull-rider Joe Willie Wolfchild is poised to win the most sought after title in rodeo when a devastating accident at the National Finals leaves his body and ambitions in tatters

family life

Their letters

Each character in these stories is full of surprises

Combining Zitkála-Sá's childhood memories

My Grandfathers Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation Ojibwe Champion bull-rider Joe Willie WolfchildWhen Ojibwe historian Brenda Child uncovered the Bureau of Indian Affairs file on her grandparents, it was an eye opening experience. The correspondence, full of incendiary comments on their morals and character, demonstrated the breathtakingly intrusive power of federal agents in the early twentieth century. While telling her own familys stories from the Red Lake Reservation, as well as stories of Ojibwe people around the Great Lakes, Child examines