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Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849.
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Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849. Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas's island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west. That day, Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, could be in danger: Her way of life. Her home.
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She was named Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop. Omakayas and her family live on an island in Lake Superior. Though there are growing numbers of white people encroaching on their land, life continues much as it always has. But the satisfying rhythms of their life are shattered when a visitor comes to their lodge one winter night, bringing with him an invisible enemy that will change things forever-- but that will eventually lead Omakayas to discover her calling. By turns moving and humorous, this novel is a breathtaking tour de force by a gifted writer.
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Article: Reading Louise Erdrich to my son. Rachel Clouse, Rethinking schools https://rethinkingschools.org/articles/reading-louise-erdrich-to-my-son/ Model teaching unit, language arts grades 5-8, text-based inquiry unti fro Louise Erdrich's The Birchbark House. Indian Education for All Unit, Montana Office of Public Instruction https://opi.mt.gov/Portals/182/Page%20Files/Indian%20Education/Language%20Arts/Birchbark%20House.pdf
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