and the evocative "firewater

Through an examination of twentieth-century Native women’s poetry and prose

society around her begins to disintegrate

In this meticulously researched book

” (Ron Charles

Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais: Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade coyote and the evocative "firewaterThe journals of two clerks of the American Fur Company recall a lost moment in the history of the fur trade and the Anishinaabeg along Lake Superior's North Shore. Long after the Anishinaabeg first inhabited and voyageurs plied Lake Superior's North Shore in Minnesota, and well before the tide of Scandinavian immigrants swept in, Bela Chapman, a clerk of John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company, fetched up in Gichi Bitobiga stony harbor now known as