of memory and imagination

Family intimacy was threatened by the school's suppression of traditional languages and Native cultural practices

Sherman dispels outdated notions of Native American fare—no fry bread or Indian tacos here—and no European staples such as wheat flour

and a singing rain beyond the window

Williamson (1835-1917)

My Grandfathers Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation spirituality of memory and imaginationWhen Ojibwe historian Brenda Child uncovered the Bureau of Indian Affairs file on her grandparents, it was an eye opening experience. The correspondence, full of incendiary comments on their morals and character, demonstrated the breathtakingly intrusive power of federal agents in the early twentieth century. While telling her own familys stories from the Red Lake Reservation, as well as stories of Ojibwe people around the Great Lakes, Child examines