The Raven and the Loon Hidatsa elders of the Mille Lacs

elders of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe transmit a storehouse of experience and memories

suggests motion and Erdrich considers multiple movements-cellular transfer

this time to tell the stories of what Indigenous people did when invaders arrived on their homelands

while protecting tribal lands

the challenge of translation offers multiple levels of meaning—English meanings found in Anishinaabe words long as rivers and knotted like nets

The Raven and the Loon Hidatsa elders of the Mille LacsIn the time before animals were as they are today, Raven and Loon were both white. Their feathers had no colour at all. Raven spent his days swooping through the sky trying to fight off his incessant boredom, while Loon spent her days in her iglu working away on her sewing. One day, too bored to even fly, Raven visited Loon and suggested a sewing game that would give their feathers some much needed colour. The results not at all what the two birds