Research Catalog

Title

The sky watched : poems of Ojibwe lives / Linda LeGarde Grover.

Author

Grover, Linda LeGarde

Publication

Sante Fe, New Mexico : Red Mountain Press, [2015]

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Description

86 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"A collection of poetry—some bilingual—that tells the collective story of a Minnesota Ojibwe family against the backdrop of history that begins with creation and continues to this day. Through poetry, Linda LeGarde Grover contributes to the continuation of Ojibwe worldview and survival in the recounting of history and family stories. In The sky watched, the voices of children, adults and elders, of Indian boarding school students and traditional tribal storytellers, and of the Manidoog, the unseen beings who surround our lives every day are given voice in a manifestation of the Ojibwe oral tradition teachings on the written page."--Amazon.com.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

• Poems.
• Poems of Ojibwe lives

Subject

• Ojibwa Indians > Poetry
• Ojibwa Indians

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• Poetry.

Note

• "Winner of the Red Mountain Editor's award"--Cover.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I Ziigwan spring -- Redemption -- Winona conceives the trickster -- Windigo bimose -- II Niibin summer -- everything you need to know in life -- You'll learn at boarding school -- The story of Victoria and Elias -- South Dakota Mission School, 1890 -- Leaving -- Ma at home -- Bemidji -- Grandmother at Indian School -- The canticle of the night -- Saint Bernard -- Lugalette -- Bernadette -- Bruneux -- Mary remembering, on a July afternoon -- Order -- Town, as I recall it -- Escape -- Chi Ko-ko-koho and the Boarding School Prefect, 1934 -- III Dagwaagom Autumn -- Lost and astigmatic twenty-nine-year-old self -- The refugees -- Mewinzhaa, Bijiinaago Marie and Uncle Roy -- The invisible child -- Miss Shawn -- For Asin -- The class of 1968 -- Lisa, Let us remember Richard -- To the woman who just bought that set of Native American spirituality dream interpretation cards -- Mary Susan -- Nindaaniss Waawashinkeshikwesens on a winter night -- My Dad, who treats life like a sacrament -- IV Biboon winter -- Anishinaabikwe -- Everywoman -- Ikwe Ishpiming -- Casualty days -- Parturition, a poem for Brenda and Terrie -- The beanbag -- Looking for a woman with blues -- Setting bait for the trickster -- E.W. Bohannon, my grandmother, and me -- Magdalene in the shade of Versonica's love -- Migwechiwendam Ojibwemowin -- Migwechiwendam Shaaganaashimowin.

ISBN

• 9780990804772
• 0990804771

OCLC

954056161

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library