What goes into the making of a tribal elder? We find some answers in the story of Edward James Bainbridge. Written like a memoir in first person, his story provides rich lessons in resilience, hope, faith, and remaining, always, Ojibwe.

Walking Softly

Literature & Fiction

Peacock, Thomas D.

United States

Dovetailed Press LLC

Beginnings: The Homeward Journey of Donovan Manypenny is the story of Donovan Manypenny. Raised by his grandparents on a northern Wisconsin Ojibwe reservation until their passing when he is ten years old, he becomes a ward of the state of Wisconsin and enters the child welfare system – foster care, children’s home, and adoption. The trauma he experiences as a result of losing his grandparents and way of life leads him to put his past behind him for over forty-three years. Then at the age of fifty-three, events in his life take him back to his childhood home, retracing the historical westward migration of his Ojibwe ancestors. Heartfelt and bittersweet, and layered with meaning, Beginnings: The Homeward Journey of Donovan Manypenny will resonate with anyone who longs to make the journey home, wherever that may be, as well those who seek or have experienced cultural or spiritual awakening, and healing.

Beginnings: The Homeward Journey of Donovan Manypenny

Holy Cow! Press

Several days after I took the pups to the place overlooking Spirit Island, Youngest Nephew came to visit one afternoon as I lay sunning. "Zhi-shay'," he began hesitantly. "I don't know my life purpose." "Sure you do," I replied. "Part of your purpose was determined before you were even born. It's just not clear to you yet because you are still young." "When will I know?" he asked. "The Creator made us, you, me, all of us here, your family. It made us for a very special reason." "So I don't need to go seek my vision?" he asked. "No," I said. "Wolves do not need to seek a vision." "Our purpose and reason for being," I said, "Is to be wolves." --- The Wolf's Trail tells of Zhi-shay', an elder wolf, and a litter of young wolves living somewhere on the side of a hill overlooking the river that flows through Nagahchiwanong in northern Minnesota. Zhi-shay', who knows the whole story of the parallel relationship between wolves and the Ojibwe going all the way back to the Beginning, sharing it with his nieces and nephews, and us. Replete with universal lessons, The Wolf's Trail is the story of the Ojibwe, told by wolves, of what they were and have become, and the promise of their becoming.

The Wolf's Trail: An Ojibwe Story, Told by Wolves

The Tao of Nookomis introduces readers to timeless, layered stories that capture both the simplicity and complexity of Native existence. The stories revolve around its teachings and teachers: ninety-five-year-old Grandma Nooko, Uncle Eddie, Deacon Kingfisher, Ronnie, Donovan Manypenny, Wayne Bishop, Maggie Manypenny, Desiree Ogema, Ogema (the wolf), and Ogema (the wolf hybrid). Join these and others as they learn and practice the ways of their ancestors, carrying traditions into the present day.

The Tao of Nookomis

Independently published

The Tao of Nookomis introduces readers to timeless, layered stories that capture both the simplicity and complexity of Native existence. The stories revolve around its teachings and teachers: ninety-five-year-old Grandma Nooko, Uncle Eddie, Deacon Kingfisher, Ronnie, Donovan Manypenny, Wayne Bishop, Maggie Manypenny, Desiree Ogema, Ogema (the wolf), and Ogema (the wolf hybrid). Join these and others as they learn and practice the ways of their ancestors, carrying traditions into the present day.

North Star Press of St. Cloud

This book is based on interviews with 120 Native youth from across North America. Written especially for today's Native middle and high school students, the authors share students' stories of life's challenges and their struggles to find and stay on the Good Path. They focus especially on how students developed strong Native identities; coped with troubles in their families, communities, and schools; reached their breaking points or responded resiliently to high-pressure situations; learned to appreciate their own intellectual gifts and abilities; and met the academic and social challenges they encountered in school. Interspersed throughout the book are short fictional "teaching stories" meant to illustrate common dilemmas faced by Native youth and how the characters responded.

The Seventh Generation: Native Students Speak About Finding the Good Path

Bergstrom, Amy

Cleary, Linda Miller

Biographies & Memoirs

Eric Clearinghouse on Rural

Ojibwe: Waasa Inaabidaa is a uniquely personal history of the Ojibwe culture by Ojibwe educator Thomas Peacock. Illustrated with color and historic black-and-white photographs, artwork, and maps, it is the story of how the Ojibwe people and their ways have continued to survive, and even thrive, from pre-contact times to the present.

Ojibwe Waasa Inaabidaa: We Look in All Directions

History

Wisuri, Marlene

Americas

Afton Historical Society Pr

OUT OF PRINT, ORDER SOFT COVER ISBN 1-890434-27-2

Ojibwe Waasa Inaabidaa: We Look In All Directions

A history of the Ojibwe culture which focuses on the teachings of the Good Path, nine core values that are the fundamental basis of Ojibwe philosophy.

The Good Path: Ojibwe Learning and Activity Book for Kids

Children's Books

Biographies

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Walking Softly

Beginnings: The Homeward Journey of Donovan Manypenny

The Wolf's Trail: An Ojibwe Story, Told by Wolves

The Tao of Nookomis

The Tao of Nookomis

The Seventh Generation: Native Students Speak About Finding the Good Path

Ojibwe Waasa Inaabidaa: We Look in All Directions

Ojibwe Waasa Inaabidaa: We Look In All Directions

The Good Path: Ojibwe Learning and Activity Book for Kids