Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories medicine This book is organized around

This book is organized around five cross-cultural themes: Children

and nature

and its current usage provides new critical connections between North American fiction

The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets

Moving between cycles of alliance and competition

Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories medicine This book is organized aroundA language carries a people's memories, whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences, as communal history, or as humorous tales. This collection of stories from Anishinaabe elders offers a history of a people at the same time that it seeks to preserve the language of that people. Based on interviews Treuer conducted with ten elders this anthol ogy presents the elders' stories transcribed in Ojibwe with English translation on facing pages.