Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year crime are dancing

are dancing

alone or in a group

In language as perceptive as it is poignant

and the ties that bind us not only to what has been

but melded to imagination

Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year crime are dancingWinner of the 2018 Minnesota Book Award for memoir. Long before it came to be known as Duluth, the land at the western tip of Lake Superior was known to the Ojibwe as Onigamiising, "the place of the small portage." There the Ojibwe lived in keeping with the seasons, moving among different camps for hunting and fishing, for cultivating and gathering, for harvesting wild rice and maple sugar. In Onigamiising, Linda LeGarde Grover accompanies us through