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Book Details · Subject Headings · Plot Summary · Table of Contents
National Book Award finalist.
Illustrations by Erdrich.
The 1999 hardcover edition (ISBN 0786803002) and jacket design by Christine Kettner; beadwork depicted on jacket by Vicki St. Clair. Jacket illustration by Erdrich. Backcover photograph of Erdrich by Marc Norberg.
The 2002 paperback edition (ISBN 0786814543) is from Hyperion Paperbacks for Children.
Ojibwa Indians -- Juvenile fiction
Ojibwa Indians -- Fiction
Indians of North America -- Superior, Lake, Region -- Fiction
Islands -- Fiction
Seasons -- Fiction
"Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847. For as long as Omakayas can remember, she and her family have lived on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. Although the chimookoman, white people, encroach more and more on their land, life continues much as it always has. Every summer the family builds a new birchbark house; every fall they go to ricing camp to harvest and feast; they move to the cedar log house before the first snows arrive, and celebrate the end of the long, cold winters at maple-sugaring camp. In between, Omakayas fights with her annoying little brother, Pinch, plays with the adorable baby, Neewo, and tries to be grown-up like her beautiful older sister, Angeline. But the satisfying rhythms of their lives are shattered when a visitor comes to their lodge one winter night, bringing with him an invisible enemy that will change things forever."
The Girl from Spirit Island
NEEBIN (Summer)
1. The Birchbark House
2. Old Tallow
3. The Return
4. Andeg
Deydey's Ghost Story
DAGWAGING (Fall)
5. Fishtail's Pipe
6. Pinch
7. The Move
8. First Snow
BIBOON (Winter)
9. The Blue Ferns
Grandma's Story: Fishing the Dark Side of the Lake
10. The Visitor
11. Hunger
Nanabozho and Muskrat Make An Earth
ZEEGWUN (Spring)
12. Maple Sugar Time
13. One Horn's Protection
14. Full Circle
Note on the Ojibwa Language
Glossary and pronounciation guide of Ojibwa terms
Modified: June 02, 2008,
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