Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories medicine The events of Dorothy Dora

The events of Dorothy Dora Whipple’s life resonate with Ojibwe life and culture through the twentieth century

to carry him on

The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets

This book is organized around five cross-cultural themes: Children

Jessie Oonark

Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories medicine The events of Dorothy DoraA language carries a people's memories, whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences, as communal history, or as humorous tales. This collection of stories from Anishinaabe elders offers a history of a people at the same time that it seeks to preserve the language of that people. Based on interviews Treuer conducted with ten elders this anthol ogy presents the elders' stories transcribed in Ojibwe with English translation on facing pages.