The game of silence
Erdrich, Louise
The game of silence / Louise Erdrich - 1st ed. - New York : HarperCollins , c2005. - xii, 256 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior.It is 1850, and the lives of the Ojibwe have returned to a familiar rhythm: they build their birchbark houses in the summer, go to the ricing camps in the fall to harvest and feast, and move to their cozy cedar log cabins near the town of LaPointe before the first snows. The satisfying routines of Omakayas's days are interrupted by a surprise visit from a group of desperate and mysterious people. From them, she learns that all their lives may drastically change. The chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island in Lake Superior and move farther west. Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, is in danger: Her home. Her way of life. In this captivating sequel to National Book Award nominee The Birchbark House , Louise Erdrich continues the story of Omakayas and her family.
9780064410298
2004006018
Ojibwa indians----Fiction
Indians of North America----Fiction
Indians of North America----Juvenile fiction
Superior, Lake, Region----History----19th century----Fiction
PZ7.E72554 / Gam 2005
JUV FIC ERD
The game of silence / Louise Erdrich - 1st ed. - New York : HarperCollins , c2005. - xii, 256 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior.It is 1850, and the lives of the Ojibwe have returned to a familiar rhythm: they build their birchbark houses in the summer, go to the ricing camps in the fall to harvest and feast, and move to their cozy cedar log cabins near the town of LaPointe before the first snows. The satisfying routines of Omakayas's days are interrupted by a surprise visit from a group of desperate and mysterious people. From them, she learns that all their lives may drastically change. The chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island in Lake Superior and move farther west. Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, is in danger: Her home. Her way of life. In this captivating sequel to National Book Award nominee The Birchbark House , Louise Erdrich continues the story of Omakayas and her family.
9780064410298
2004006018
Ojibwa indians----Fiction
Indians of North America----Fiction
Indians of North America----Juvenile fiction
Superior, Lake, Region----History----19th century----Fiction
PZ7.E72554 / Gam 2005
JUV FIC ERD
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