The Birchbark House - Book 1 : The Birchbark House (PB) Dakelh This book begins with the

This book begins with the Ojibway creation story and how first man came to earth

and Kim Anderson

a social worker

Its narrative power relies on the unguarded

and the landmark 1972 national policy of Indian Control of Indian Education

The Birchbark House - Book 1 : The Birchbark House (PB) Dakelh This book begins with theThis National Book Award finalist by Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Louise Erdrich is the first installment in an essential nine book series chronicling 100 years in the life of one Ojibwe family, and includes beautiful interior black and white artwork done by the author. 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