Hardcover, 256 pages
English language
Published July 21, 1999 by Hyperion.
Birchbark House, The
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[In this] story of a young Ojibwa girl, Omakayas, living on an island in Lake Superior around 1847, Louise Erdrich is reversing the narrative perspective used in most children's stories about nineteenth-century Native Americans. Instead of looking out at 'them' as dangers or curiosities, Erdrich, drawing on her family's history, wants to tell about 'us', from the inside. The Birchbark House establishes its own ground, in the vicinity of Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' books. --The New York Times Book Review
Subjects
- People & Places - United States - Native American
- Indians of North America
- Children's 9-12 - Fiction - Historical
- Children: Grades 4-6
- Superior, Lake, Region
- Juvenile Fiction / Ethnic / Native American
- Juvenile Fiction / General
- Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction
- Ojibwa Indians