Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories medicine Erdrich's wry sensibility

Erdrich's wry sensibility

The events of Dorothy Dora Whipple’s life resonate with Ojibwe life and culture through the twentieth century

the Seven Grandfathers and the little boy

and its current usage provides new critical connections between North American fiction

Moving between cycles of alliance and competition

Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories medicine Erdrich's wry sensibilityA language carries a people's memories, whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences, as communal history, or as humorous tales. This collection of stories from Anishinaabe elders offers a history of a people at the same time that it seeks to preserve the language of that people. Based on interviews Treuer conducted with ten elders this anthol ogy presents the elders' stories transcribed in Ojibwe with English translation on facing pages.