Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year drum Sharyl and Windy Downwind and

Sharyl and Windy Downwind and their children travel from their home on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota to powwows all around the region

a history deeper and more complex than is often told

and contrasts this legacy with the white entitlement as well as cultural land desecrations of the Bundy movement

as they work to manage tribal enrollment and social services

Through traditional native tales

Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year drum Sharyl and Windy Downwind andWinner of the 2018 Minnesota Book Award for memoir. Long before it came to be known as Duluth, the land at the western tip of Lake Superior was known to the Ojibwe as Onigamiising, "the place of the small portage." There the Ojibwe lived in keeping with the seasons, moving among different camps for hunting and fishing, for cultivating and gathering, for harvesting wild rice and maple sugar. In Onigamiising, Linda LeGarde Grover accompanies us through