Portage Lake: Memories of an Ojibwe Childhood rez Maude Kegg's memories build a

Maude Kegg's memories build a bridge to a time when building birch-bark wigwams and harvesting turtles were still part of the everyday life of a native girl in the mid-west

and landscapes bring vibrancy and warmth to this powerful story

Fairbanks restricts his study to markers that are far more elusive and difficult in terms of semantic ambiguity and their contribution to sentences and Ojibwe discourse

and unflinchingly honest

"— New Yorker

Portage Lake: Memories of an Ojibwe Childhood rez Maude Kegg's memories build aMaude Kegg's memories build a bridge to a time when building birch bark wigwams and harvesting turtles were still part of the everyday life of a native girl in the mid west. In this bilingual book, this elder of the Minnesota Anishinaabe reminisces about her childhood. An English translation of each story appears on pages facing the original Ojibwe text, and the editor John Nicholds has included a full Ojibwe English glossary with study aids.