Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year drum and the current reservation economy

and the current reservation economy

a history deeper and more complex than is often told

For too long

Many American Indians—past and present—have had the ability to use power to access wisdom

Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year drum and the current reservation economyWinner 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