Spanning more than four hundred years

Cheese's is a powerful and compelling collection of Tiffany Midge's musings on life

She navigates two worlds—that of her own tribe

and necessary addition to school libraries and classrooms

Louise Phelps Kellogg

Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories language studies Spanning more than four hundredA language carries a people's memories, whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences, as communal history, or as humorous tales. This collection of stories from Anishinaabe elders offers a history of a people at the same time that it seeks to preserve the language of that people. Based on interviews Treuer conducted with ten elders this anthol ogy presents the elders' stories transcribed in Ojibwe with English translation on facing pages.