Dadibaajim: Returning Home Through Narrative Choctaw Dez is told she can't

Dez is told she can't stay with her anymore

Drawing from a vast corpus of both primary and archived sources

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this collection of stories speaks to children and adults alike

and perhaps even powerful enough to save the world

Dadibaajim: Returning Home Through Narrative Choctaw Dez is told she can'tDadibaajim narratives are of and from the land, born from experience and observation. Invoking this critical Anishinaabe methodology for teaching and learning, Helen Olsen Agger documents and reclaims the history, identity, and inherent entitlement of the Namegosibii Anishinaabeg to the care, use, and occupation of their Trout Lake homelands. When Agger's mother, Dedibaayaanimanook, was born in 1922, the community had limited contact with Euro