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- ISBN 9781611864625
- Weight: 227g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2023
- Publisher: Michigan State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Originally published in 1893 and 1901, Simon Pokagon’s birch bark stories were printed on thinly peeled and elegantly bound birch bark. In this edition, these rare booklets are reprinted with new essays that set the stories in cultural, linguistic, historical, and even geological context. Experts in Native literary traditions, history, Algonquian languages, the Michigan landscape, and materials conservation illuminate the thousands of years of Indigenous knowledge that Pokagon elevated in his stories. This is an essential resource for teachers and scholars of Native literature, Neshnabé pasts and futures, Algonquian linguistics, and book history.
Blaire Morseau is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She was the first archivist for the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, where she is an enrolled citizen.
