Plums or Nuts : Ojibwe Stories of Anishinaabe Humor Anishinaabe traditional land of the Yellowknives

traditional land of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation

The authors discuss the scholarship of Beatrice Blackwood

This was a boarding school (residential school) run by the government

stories take many forms and give shape and substance to things we believe

The Crown is the party against whom a First Nation must make its claim yet also determines the validity of the claim and controls its process of negotiation and resolution

Plums or Nuts : Ojibwe Stories of Anishinaabe Humor Anishinaabe traditional land of the YellowknivesA master Ojibwe storyteller shares twenty five storiesoften bawdy, full of mischief and misbehaviorin Ojibwe and English. Larry Amik Smallwood had the gift of making people laugh. Of all the teachings Amik strove to pass along to his students, he cherished most the humor of his Ojibwe people. In this bilingual collection, Amik tells of his many adventures and those of others he knew. Learning to speak English in the first grade. A spectacular mishap