Portage Lake: Memories of an Ojibwe Childhood rez and the indispensible correlation of

and the indispensible correlation of land consciousness and food consciousness

"— New Yorker

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

with inadequate shelter

Fairbanks restricts his study to markers that are far more elusive and difficult in terms of semantic ambiguity and their contribution to sentences and Ojibwe discourse

Portage Lake: Memories of an Ojibwe Childhood rez and the indispensible correlation ofMaude 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.