Bkejwanong Dbaajmowinan: Stories of Where the Waters Divide raven This Dakota-English dictionary was sponsored

This Dakota-English dictionary was sponsored by the Minnesota Historical Society when it was first published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1852

a boarding school survivor

Readers will discover the truth about everything from kachina dolls to casinos

who moved to the big city of Minneapolis

Bishop Frederic Baraga was Chief among the Lake Superior area missionaries 1797-1868)

Bkejwanong Dbaajmowinan: Stories of Where the Waters Divide raven This Dakota-English dictionary was sponsoredBkejwanong means where the waters part, but the waters of St. Clair River are not a point of separation. The same waters that sustain life on and around Bkejwanongformerly known as Walpole Island, Ontarioflow down into Chippewas of the Thames, the community to which author Monty McGahey II belongs. While there are no living fluent speakers of Anishinaabemowin in this community, McGahey has fostered relationships with fluent speakers from nearby