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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 this cycle of the seasons, one year in a lifelong journey on the path to Mino Bimaadiziwin, the living of a good life. In fifty short essays, Grover reflects on the spiritual beliefs and everyday practices that carry the Ojibwe through the year and connect them to this northern land of rugged splendor. As the four seasons unfold - from Ziigwan (Spring) through Niibin and Dagwaagin to the silent, snowy promise of Biboon - the award-winning author writes eloquently of the landscape and the weather, work and play, ceremony and tradition and family ways, from the homey moments shared over meals to the celebrations that mark life's great events.



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Linda LeGarde Grover

Linda LeGarde Grover is a professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe. Her work - fiction, nonfiction, and poetry - recounts stories of Ojibwe life in northeastern Minnesota individuals, families and communities set against the backdrop of indigenous tradition and impacts of historical and current events.Awards: Grover's novel The Road Back to Sweetgrass has received the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers 2015 Fiction Award; The Dance Boots received the Flannery O'Connor Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize; her poetry collection The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives received the Red Mountain Press Editor's Award and the 2017 Northeastern Minnesota Book Award for Poetry. Grover's essay collection/memoir Onigamiising: Seasons of An Ojibwe Year received both the Minnesota Book Award and the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award.



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