Harjo's personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings

What he's not used to is white people being nice to him — people like George Haddonfield

daredevil Indian heroine

eluding analytic frameworks of invented tradition and naïve continuity

Chacaby learned spiritual and cultural traditions from her Cree grandmother and trapping

Portage Lake: Memories of an Ojibwe Childhood queer studies Harjo's personal life intertwines withMaude Kegg's memories build a bridge to a time when building birch bark wigwams and harvesting turtles were still part of the everyday life of a native girl in the mid west. In this bilingual book, this elder of the Minnesota Anishinaabe reminisces about her childhood. An English translation of each story appears on pages facing the original Ojibwe text, and the editor John Nicholds has included a full Ojibwe English glossary with study aids.