The birchbark house

Description:

[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: Fiction,  Juvenile fiction,  Ojibwa Indians,  Indians of North America,  Islands,  Seasons,  Islands in fiction,  Indians of North America in fiction,  Superior, Lake, Region in fiction,  Seasons in fiction,  Ojibwa Indians in fiction,  Children's fiction,  Indians of north america, ojibway indians, fiction,  Superior, lake, fiction,  Islands, fiction,  Seasons, fiction,  American Indian-Early life-Fiction,  Ojibwa-Fiction,  Girls,  First contact with Europeans,  History

Places: Region Superior, Lake,  Madeline Island-fiction,  Lake Superior Region,  Lake Superior

Times: Family history-Fiction