Book Recommendations
Some great books and resources to learn more.
Balanced North Shore History
A Life in Two Worlds – Betty Powell Skoog
Minong – Tim Cochrane
Gichi Bitobig – Tim Cochrane
Making the Carry – Tim Cochrane
Spirits Dancing – Travis Novitsky & Annette Lee
Boundary Waters Boy – Jack Blackwell
The Grand Portage Story – Carolyn Gilman
Kitchi Onigaming – Grand Portage RTC
John Beargrease – Daniel Lancaster
Shingebiss: An Ojibwe Legend – Retold by Nancy Van Laan & illustrated by Betsy Bowen
Chippewa Customs – Frances Densmore
How the Birds Got Their Songs – Travis Zimmerman, illustrated by Sam Zimmerman
Walking the Old Road: A People’s History of Chippewa City & the Grand Marais Anishinaabe – Staci Drouillard
Seven Aunts – Staci Drouillard
A Family Tree – Staci Drouillard, illustrated by Kate Gardiner
Ojibwe/Anishinaabe Writers
Night Flying Woman – Ignatia Broker
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country – Louise Erdrich
Fur Trade Nation – Carl Gawboy
The Assassination of Hole in the Day – Anton Treuer
Original Local – Heid Erdrich
The Wolf’s Trail – Thomas Peacock
Talking Rocks –Carl Gawboy & Ron Morton
The Road Back to Sweetgrass & others by Linda LeGarde Grover
Moon of the Crusted Snow – Waubgeshig Rice
Holding Our World Together – Brenda Child
Firekeeper’s Daughter & others by Angeline Boulley
Girl Gone Missing & others by Marcie Rendon
Plants Have So Much to Give Us—All We Have to Do is Ask – Mary Siisip Geniusz
History of the Ojibwe People – William Warren
Other Good Resources
The Lost Journals of Sacajawea: A Novel – Debra Magpie Earling
Ceremony – Leslie Silko
The Trickster Riots – Taté Walker
Black Elk Speaks – John G. Neihardt & Black Elk
Lakota Woman – Mary Crow Dog
A Council of Dolls – Mona Susan Power
She Had Some Horses – & others by Joy Harjo
There, There – Tommy Orange (new book out now!)
The Seed Keeper – Diane Wilson
Braiding Sweetgrass—Robin Wall Kimmerer
1619 Project – Nikole Hanna-Jones
All About Love – bell hooks
Drury Lane Books, Grand Marais
Indigenous First Art & Gifts (AICHO) in Duluth:
http://www.aicho.org/gift-shop.html#/
Birchbark Books Minneapolis: https://birchbarkbooks.com/
