Results for "Grover, Linda LeGarde"

A fifty-year-old mystery converges with a present-day struggle over family, land, and history   When a rock is dislodged from its slope by mischievous ancestors, the past rises to meet the present, and Half-Dime Hill gives up a gruesome secret it has kept for half a century. Some people of Mo... Read More about A Song over Miskwaa Rapids: A Novel

Long before it came to be known as Duluth, the land at the western tip of Lake Superior was known to the Ojibwe as Onigamiising, “the place of the small portage.” There the Ojibwe lived in keeping with the seasons, moving among different camps for hunting and fishing, for cultivating and gathering, ... Read More about Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year

A collective memoir in poetry of an Ojibwe family and tribal community, from creation myth to this day, updated with new poems   Reaching from the moment of creation to the cry of a newborn, The Sky Watched gives poetic voice to Ojibwe family life. In English and Ojibwe, those assembled here—vo... Read More about The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives

Award-winning author Linda LeGarde Grover interweaves family and Ojibwe history with stories from Misaabekong (the place of the giants) on Lake Superior Long before there was a Duluth, Minnesota, the massive outcropping that divides the city emerged from the ridge of gabbro rock running along the we... Read More about Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from Misaabekong

Winner: Northeastern Minnesota Book Award - Fiction Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association U.P. Notable Book Award​Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation  When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and then disappears, sh... Read More about In the Night of Memory: A Novel

In this stirring collection of linked stories, Linda LeGarde Grover portrays an Ojibwe community struggling to follow traditional ways of life in the face of a relentlessly changing world. In the title story an aunt recounts the harsh legacy of Indian boarding schools that tried to break the indig... Read More about The Dance Boots (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction #72)