Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories medicine the Seven Grandfathers and the

the Seven Grandfathers and the little boy

Moving between cycles of alliance and competition

and nature

Jessie Oonark

to carry him on

Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories medicine the Seven Grandfathers and theA 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.