Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative

by Ignatia Broker

Overview

With the art of a practiced storyteller, Ignatia Broker recounts the life of her great-great-grandmother, Night Flying Woman, who was born in the mid-19th century and lived during a chaotic time of enormous change, uprootings, and loss for the Minnesota Ojibway. But this story also tells of her people's great strength and continuity. This popular book is also available on audiotape read by Debra Smith. An enrolled member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa, she has performed her own poetry on a syndicated radio series on Native writers. 

Ignatia Broker, who died in 1987, was a story-teller and teacher in the Ojibway tradition. In 1984 she received a Wonder Woman Foundation award honoring her as a woman striving for peace and equality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873511674
Publisher:	Minnesota Historical Society Press
Publication date:	03/15/1983
Series:	Native Voices
Pages:	135
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	8 Years

About the Author

Ignatia Broker, who died in 1987, was a member of the Ojibway tribe, the Ottertail Pillager Band, and the A-wa-sa-si Clan. She was born in 1919 on the White Earth Indian Reservation and attended an Indian boarding school in North Dakota. Her higher education included the Minnesota School of Business. Following this, she faced fierce discrimination when seeking employment. In 1966, she began a career with the Minneapolis Public Schools, where she became a member of the Minority Task Force, aiding in the development of the Title IV Indian Studies Curriculum. As a staff writer for the Audio Visual Based Indian Resource Unit of the Minneapolis Public Schools, she authored many stories, filmstrips, and booklets that are a part of the curriculum today. Broker was also a member of many Indian organizations and founded the Minnesota American Indian Historical Society. In 1984, she received a Wonder Woman Foundation award honoring her extraordinary accomplishments as a woman striving for peace and equality.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
	Prologue: The Forest Cries	1
	Ni-bo-wi-se-gwe	13
	Six Days' Journey	27
	The Rainy Country	39
	Oona Dreams	51
	White Earth	63
	New Homes, Old Ways	77
	The New Ways	91
	Oona Becomes a Woman	103
	Times of Change	113
	The Circle	127
	Glossary	133