Recommended reading, grades 3-6: Ininatig's Gift of Sugar: Traditional Native
Sugarmaking, Laura Wateman Wittstock, photos by Dale Kakkak. $19.95 hardcover,
$6.95 paper, discounts to schools. Lerner, Minneapolis, 800/328-4929. Lerner publishes a
series of Native-centered social studies books for elementary children, and several for
young adults. These are done either by native authors (as Laura and Dale are) or in
careful consultation with the tribal group (Mille Lacs in this case) whose real-life story is
told.
You can buy this book on-line, discounted from amazon.com:
Ininatig's Gift of Sugar : Traditional Native Sugarmaking (We Are Still Here :
Native Americans Today); Laura Waterman Wittstock, Dale Kakkak
(Photographer); Library Binding; $19.95
And for fascination adult reading:
Chippewa Customs (Publications of the Minnesota Historical Society); Frances
Densmore; Paperback; $9.95Navigation Buttons
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MENUCREDITS: The canoe logo was drawn by me (FreeHand) in 1994 to use on a flyer for a Heart of the
Earth Native Science Project-sponsored stortytelling about Wild Rice by a project staffer. For
these web pages, I added a big harvest moon and colored it. Credits for the paintings and
drawings used in the "Desjarlait" section linked-to here are on the Minnesota Indian Artists page,
which honors the Red Lake Ojibwe Pat DesJarlait and the DesJarlait artist-family. Several old
photos or drawings here are from Canada SchoolNet's CanaDisk image library.
Others were scanned by me from Frances Densmore's Chippewa Customs, material she collected
from 1905-1925 (U.S. Bureau of Ethnography) which was reprinted in hardcover by Ross and
Haines Old Books, Minneapolis, 1970, long out of print (a defunct company). Nodinens story
about maple sugaring is taken from there. Densmore's How Indians Use Wild Plants for Fooid,
Medicine & Crafts compiled over the same priod as her other Ojibwe books is the source of some
photos of sugaring and ricing tools.
Webmistress --Paula Giese.Text and graphics copyright 1995.
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