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"[In this] story of a young Ojibwa girl, Omakayas, living on an island in Lake Superior around 1847, Louise Erdrich is reversing the narrative perspective used in most children's stories about nineteenth-century Native Americans. Instead of looking out at 'them' as dangers or curiosities, Erdrich, drawing on her family's history, wants to tell about 'us', from the inside. The Birchbark House establishes its own ground, in the vicinity of Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' books." --The New York Times Book Review - from Amzon



Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.



Girl from Spirit Island --

Neebin (Summer): Birchbark house --

Old tallow --

Return --

Andeg: Deydey's ghost story --

Dagwaging (Fall): Fishtail's pipe --

Pinch --

Move --

First snow --

Biboon (Winter): Blue ferns: Grandma's story: Fishing the dark side of the lake --

Visitor --

Hunger: Nanabozho and Muskrat make an earth --

Zeegwun (Spring) --

Maple sugar time --

One Horn's protection --

Full circle --

Note on the Ojibwa language --

Glossary and pronounciation guide of Ojibwa terms.