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These recently transcribed and translated stories, first recorded in the 1940s by the Anishinaabe-speaking peoples of the Harbor Springs area of Michigan, draw on the legends, fables, trickster stories, parables, and humor of Anishinaabe culture. Reaching back to the distant past but also delving into more recent events, this book represents a broad swath of Anishinaabe history. Featuring side-by-side Anishinaabe/English translations.

Southwestern American Indian Literature: In the Classroom and Beyond addresses several challenges that teaching Southwestern American Indian literature presents, and suggests innovative ways of teaching the material. Drawing on the author¿s experiences teaching literature ¿ both in the classroom and in the canyons of the Southwest ¿ the book covers works ranging from the famous (Leslie Marmon Silkös Ceremony) to the underappreciated (George Webb¿s A Pima Remembers). One chapter discusses teaching Sherman Alexie¿s Smoke Signals along with Silkös «Yellow Woman» as world literature; another functions as a guide to organizing a travel seminar that will enable students to experience American Indian literature and culture in potentially life-changing ways. This book provides a practical approach to the teaching of Southwestern American Indian literature without simplifying its inherent challenges.

Louise Erdrich positions herself as a contemporary tribal storyteller with her interlocking tales of her Chippewa people and her German-American ancestors. From the tribe¿s struggle to survive (Tracks), to the Depression (The Beet Queen), to the mid-twentieth century (Love Medicine), to contemporary times (The Bingo Palace, Tales of Burning Love, and The Antelope Wise), Erdrich sympathetically, compassionately, and realistically renders a portrait of people striving to survive governmental bureaucracy, Catholic Church intrusion, and climatic severity.