The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives

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—voices of history, of memory and experience, of children and elders, Indian boarding school students, tribal storytellers, and the Manidoog, the unseen beings who surround our lives—come together to creat...