The birchbark house /
Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847. For as long as Omakayas can remember, she and her family have lived on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Wood...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Hyperion Paperbacks for Children,
2002.
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| Edition: | First Hyperion paperback edition. |
| Series: | Erdrich, Louise. Birchbark House series ;
bk. 1. |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A30 |
| Summary: | Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847. For as long as Omakayas can remember, she and her family have lived on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. Although the chimookoman, white people, encroach more and more on their land, life continues much as it always has. Every summer the family builds a new birchbark house; every fall they go to ricing camp to harvest and feast; they move to the cedar log house before the first snows arrive, and celebrate the end of the long, cold winters at maple-sugaring camp. In between, Omakayas fights with her annoying little brother, Pinch, plays with the adorable baby, Neewo, and tries to be grown-up like her beautiful older sister, Angeline. But the satisfying rhythms of their lives are shattered when a visitor comes to their lodge one winter night, bringing with him an invisible enemy that will change things forever. Set on an island in Lake Superior in 1847, and filled with fascinating details of traditional Ojibwa life, The Birchbark House is a breathtaking novel by one of America's most gifted and original writers. |
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| Item Description: | "National Book Award finalist"--Cover Originally published: 1999. Includes author's note on the Ojibwa language and glossary and pronunciation guide of Ojibwa terms. |
| Physical Description: | 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Awards: | WILLA Award (Women writing the West), YA Fiction, 2000 National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Award, 2000 National Book Award finalist |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 240). |
| ISBN: | 0786814543 9780786814541 0756911869 9780756911867 9781435267787 1435267788 9780613593847 0613593847 0329282212 1404629343 9780329282219 9781404629349 0786822414 9780786822416 0786803002 9780786803002 |