The birchbark house
About this book
[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
- american indian-early life-fiction
- children's fiction
- fiction
- first contact with europeans
- girls
- history
- indians of north america
- indians of north america in fiction
- indians of north america, ojibway indians, fiction
- islands
- islands, fiction
- islands in fiction
- juvenile fiction
- ojibwa-fiction
- ojibwa indians
- ojibwa indians in fiction
- seasons
- seasons, fiction
- seasons in fiction
- superior, lake, fiction
- superior, lake, region in fiction