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(0)Linda LeGarde Grover
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dale Ann, Theresa, and Margie, a trio of American Indian women, from the 1970s to the present, observe their coming of age and the intersection of their lives as they navigate love, economic hardship, loss, and changing family dynamics on the fictional Mozhay Point reservation.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
211 pages; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and then disappears, she becomes one more missing Native woman in Indian Country's long devastating history of loss. But she is also a daughter of the Mozhay Point Reservation in northern Minnesota and the mother of Azure and Rain, ages 3 and 4, and her absence haunts all the lives she has touched--and all the stories they tell in this novel. In the Night of Memory returns to the fictional reservation...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 149 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Margie Robineau, fighting for her family's long-held allotment land, uncovers events connected to a long-ago escape plan, and the burial--at once figurative and painfully real--of not one crime but two. While Margie pieces the facts together, Dale Ann is confronted by her own tightly held secrets and the truth that the long ago and the now are all indelibly linked, no matter how much we try to forget"--
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
x, 145 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Linda LeGarde Grover interweaves family and Ojibwe history with stories from Misaabekong (the place of the giants) on Lake Superior"--
Long before there was a Duluth, Minnesota, the massive outcropping that divides the city emerged from the ridge of gabbro rock running along the westward shore of Lake Superior. A great westward migration carried the Ojibwe people to this place, the Point of Rocks. Against this backdropMisaabekong, the place of the...
Author
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
x, 149 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this stirring collection of linked stories, Linda LeGarde Grover portrays an Ojibwe community struggling to follow traditional ways of life in the face of a relentlessly changing world. In the title story an aunt recounts the harsh legacy of Indian boarding schools that tried to break the indigenous culture. In doing so she passes on to her niece the Ojibwe tradition of honoring elders through their stories. In "Refugees Living and Dying in the...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First University of Minnesota Press edition.
Physical Desc
113 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A collective memoir in poetry of an Ojibwe family and tribal community, from creation myth to this day, updated with new poems. Reaching from the moment of creation to the cry of a newborn, The Sky Watched gives poetic voice to Ojibwe family life. In English and Ojibwe, those assembled here--voices of history, of memory and experience, of children and elders, Indian boarding school students, tribal storytellers, and the Manidoog, the unseen beings...
