Gichigami hearts : stories and histories from Misaabekong

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Gichigami hearts : stories and histories from Misaabekong / Linda LeGarde Grover.

Summary:

"Linda LeGarde Grover interweaves family and Ojibwe history with stories from Misaabekong (the place of the giants) on Lake Superior"-- Provided by publisher.

Long before there was was a Duluth, Minnesota, the massive outcropping that divides the city emerged from the ridge of gabbo rock running along the westward shore of Lake Superior. This was the Point of Rocks: Misaabekong, the place of the giants. Grover interweaves family and Ojibwe history with stories from Misaabekong-- all with a deep and tenacious bond to the land, one another, and the Ojibwe culture. . - adapted from back cover

Record details

ISBN: 9781517911935
ISBN: 1517911931
Physical Description: x, 145 pages : illustrations, black and white ; 22 cm
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:: Point of Rocks -- Gabbro -- An old story -- Bimosewin : from the Bethel to the Union Gospel Mission -- From the Rocks to the docks -- Anishinaabe relatives and holy places -- Grandparents -- Life among the Italians -- The beanbag -- Rain, fog, ghost, spider -- Gichigami hearts -- Waawaashkeshi -- Mooz -- Lake hearts -- Lake spirits -- Sea smoke on Gichigami -- Barney-enjiss -- The stone tomahawk -- Rabbits in wintertime -- Listening and remembering by heart -- Rabbits in the snow -- Niizh Odain : the wolf and the rabbit -- The harbor : Nanaboozhoo's brothers of the heart -- Woods lovely, dark, and deep -- Rabbits watching over Onigamiising -- Traveling song -- The end and renewal of the Earth -- Redemption -- Mishomis -- Grandfather-iban Gi-bimose -- Places remembered, though some have changed -- Homeland -- Traveling song.
Source of Description Note:: Alternative subject vocabulary from: Additions, changes and deletions to the Library of Congress Subject Headings relating Indigenous peoples. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/31177