![]() ![]() ![]() Erdrich once again shows what is was like to grow up Native American during the same time period about which Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote. They struggle to regain normalcy by returning to their routine of hunting, fishing, weaving and gathering. While some men from the tribe including Omakayas's father and Fishtail, her sister's special friend travel in different directions to investigate the rumor, the rest of the villagers remain. ![]() The tranquility of the little village is threatened when word arrives that white leaders are going to force Omakayas's people farther west into enemy territory. This sequel to The Birchbark House continues the saga of Omakayas, now "nine winters old," a member of the Ojibwe tribe who reside on an island in Lake Superior. ![]()
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