My Grandfathers Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation Ojibwe and her community burdened by

and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction

each chapter draws on a range of voices to limn its tales

Each character in these stories is full of surprises

and by the transient nature of the seasons in native dream songs and haiku

Combining Zitkála-Sá's childhood memories

My Grandfathers Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation Ojibwe and her community burdened byWhen Ojibwe historian Brenda Child uncovered the Bureau of Indian Affairs file on her grandparents, it was an eye opening experience. The correspondence, full of incendiary comments on their morals and character, demonstrated the breathtakingly intrusive power of federal agents in the early twentieth century. While telling her own familys stories from the Red Lake Reservation, as well as stories of Ojibwe people around the Great Lakes, Child examines