Blueberry Patch: Meennunyakaa leadership having reduced Native nations to

having reduced Native nations to the legal status of dependent children

Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature combines literary criticism

who span a vast geographic region from the Great Lakes to the Plains and beyond

But in the last forty years of the nineteenth century

Blueberry Patch: Meennunyakaa leadership having reduced Native nations toWritten in English and Anishinaabemowin. Based in Duck Bay, Manitoba, in the 1940s, an Elder shares his experience of packing up to go out to collect blueberries, a traditional gathering that took place every summer. He describes the journey and landscape with humor and such vivid imagery that readers will see themselves there with him, boarding the trail of wagons from surrounding communities and heading east toward the blueberry patch. The Elder's