Portage Lake: Memories of an Ojibwe Childhood rez Honoring indigenous traditions

Honoring indigenous traditions

Maude Kegg's memories build a bridge to a time when building birch-bark wigwams and harvesting turtles were still part of the everyday life of a native girl in the mid-west

Elaina Albers of Northern California holds a tape player to her womb so her baby can hear old songs in Karuk

It is this sustaining way of life that Weso narrates for us in Good Seeds

and the indispensible correlation of land consciousness and food consciousness

Portage Lake: Memories of an Ojibwe Childhood rez Honoring indigenous traditionsMaude Kegg's memories build a bridge to a time when building birch bark wigwams and harvesting turtles were still part of the everyday life of a native girl in the mid west. In this bilingual book, this elder of the Minnesota Anishinaabe reminisces about her childhood. An English translation of each story appears on pages facing the original Ojibwe text, and the editor John Nicholds has included a full Ojibwe English glossary with study aids.