Chi Miigwech / Big Thank You

Chi Miigwech / Big Thank YouChi miigwech means big thank you in Anishinaabemowin. We can say chi miigwech for the natural world, the plants and animals and even the creatures we cannot see. Chi miigwech for our basic needs like food and shelter and for everything we feel and experience. Chi miigwech for the Seven Grandfathers Teachings: truth, love, honesty, courage, humility, wisdom and respect. And chi miigwech for you!

and even skunks for the daily larder

Memories of Lac du Flambeau Elders is a collection of interviews with fifteen Ojibwe elders of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians in northern Wisconsin

and other genres explores book bans through various lenses

Mamaskatch—"It's a wonder

In the middle of the great Pacific Ocean is a little island

and social media instead of the family stories

Covered with Night—a phrase from Iroquois mourning practices—overturns persistent assumptions about "civilized" Europeans and "savage" Native Americans

Yup'ik in Alaska

Mia makes a plan to use the gifts from her bat mitzvah to take a bus to Oklahoma--without telling her mom--to visit her dad and find the connection to her Muscogee side she knows is just as important as her Jewish side

Weso's grandmother Jennie "made fire" each morning in a wood-burning stove

Dorothy Davids

and the promise of seeing each other again