Sugar Bush Babies: Stories of My Ojibwe Grandmother

A memoir of lessons learned from an Ojibwe grandmother during the time of Relocation

Why, her mother asked, did Janis keep running away from kindergarten? She wanted to go home. But not to the house they had just moved to in Duluth, with its gravel yard and traffic noise. She was a country girl, and home was the log cabin among the wildflowers on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in Bena, Minnesota. Knowing they were now going to stay in the city, Janis’s parents offered her a compromise: ...