Night Flying Woman : an Ojibway narrative / by Ignatia Broker ; illustrated by Steven Premo ; with a foreword by Paulette Fairbanks Molin.
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TextPublication details: St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1983.Description: xiv, 135 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: - 0873511646
- 0873511670 (pbk.)
- 9780873511643
- 9780873511674 (pbk.)
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Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 306.08997 B867 | Available | 33111005003567 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
With the art of a practiced storyteller, Ignatia Broker recounts the life of her great-great-grandmother, Night Flying Woman, who was born in the mid-19th century and lived during a chaotic time of enormous change, uprootings, and loss for the Minnesota Ojibway. But this story also tells of her people's great strength and continuity. This popular book is also available on audiotape read by Debra Smith. An enrolled member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa, she has performed her own poetry on a syndicated radio series on Native writers. Ignatia Broker, who died in 1987, was a story-teller and teacher in the Ojibway tradition. In 1984 she received a Wonder Woman Foundation award honoring her as a woman striving for peace and equality.
The forest cries -- Ni-bo-wi-se-gwe -- Six days' journey -- The rainy country -- Oona dreams -- White earth -- New homes, old ways -- The new ways -- Oona become a woman -- Times of change -- The circle.
In the accounts of the lives of several generations of Ojibway people in Minnesota is much information about their history and culture.