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The dance boots

Summary:

In this stirring collection of linked stories, Linda LeGarde Grover portrays an Ojibwe community struggling to follow traditional ways of life in the face of a relentlessly changing world. In the title story an aunt recounts the harsh legacy of Indian boarding schools that tried to break the indigenous culture. In doing so she passes on to her niece the Ojibwe tradition of honoring elders through their stories. In "Refugees Living and Dying in the West End of Duluth," this same niece comes of age in the 1970s against the backdrop of her forcibly dispersed family. A cycle of boarding schools, alcoholism, and violence haunts these stories even as the characters find beauty and solace in their large extended families. With its attention to the Ojibwe language, customs, and history, this unique collection of riveting stories illuminates the very nature of storytelling. "The Dance Boots" narrates a century's evolution of Native Americans making choices and compromises, often dictated by a white majority, as they try to balance survival, tribal traditions, and obligations to future generations.

Contents:

The dance boots
Seasons
Maggie and Louis, 1914
Refugees living and dying in the west end of Duluth
Shonnud's girl
Ojibwe boys
Indians in the mirror
Bingo night.

Item details

  • ISBN: 0820335800 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780820335803 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: x, 149 pages ; 23 cm.
    print
  • Publisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2010]

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:
The dance boots
Seasons
Maggie and Louis, 1914
Refugees living and dying in the west end of Duluth
Shonnud's girl
Ojibwe boys
Indians in the mirror
Bingo night.
Subject: Ojibwe Fiction
Minnesota Fiction
Ojibwa Indians
Minnesota
Ojibwa Indians Fiction
Minnesota Fiction
Genre: Fiction.

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  • 2 out of 2 copies are currently available at PINES.

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Athens Regional Library System:
      Danielsville/Madison County Library
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Southwest Georgia Regional Library System:
      Decatur County Public Library
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