Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native American Culture in Motion Métis and soon there will be

and soon there will be books and blankets and the big armchair by the fire

In the words of one official: "Kill the Indian and save the man

a sense of nonbelonging

The volume also includes a chronology of important dates in Diné history by Jennifer Nez Denetdale

Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native American Culture in Motion Métis and soon there will beIn the early nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries promoted the translation of evangelical hymns into the Ojibwe language, regarding this music not only as a shared form of worship but also as a tool for rooting out Native cultural identity. But for many Minnesota Ojibwe today, the hymns emerged from this history of material and cultural dispossession to become emblematic of their identity as a distinct Native people. Author Michael McNally uses