Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year drum Sharyl and Windy Downwind and

Sharyl and Windy Downwind and their children travel from their home on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota to powwows all around the region

For too long

Through traditional native tales

Jimmy learns more about his Lakota heritage and

Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year drum Sharyl and Windy Downwind andWinner of the 2018 Minnesota Book Award for memoir. Long before it came to be known as Duluth, the land at the western tip of Lake Superior was known to the Ojibwe as Onigamiising, "the place of the small portage." There the Ojibwe lived in keeping with the seasons, moving among different camps for hunting and fishing, for cultivating and gathering, for harvesting wild rice and maple sugar. In Onigamiising, Linda LeGarde Grover accompanies us through