I am teaching near an Ojibwe reservation which means that my school district has a pretty good size Ojibwe population. I think it would be valuable to get to learn more about their culture. I’ve tried looking for books but majority are written by white scholars. I would prefer something from the perspective of someone who has lived within the culture instead of observed the culture.
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Are you looking for fiction or non-fiction? Louise Erdrich is a very well-known Ojibwe writer and enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. She has written a couple of non-fiction works but I believe they’re more memoir//auto-biographical. I definitely recommend her works of fiction though, particularly the loose trilogy of The Plague of Doves, The Round House, and LaRose. They all follow multiple generations of Ojibwe families.
For a more political perspective, I recommend the work (both activism and writing) of Winona LaDuke, White Earth Band of Ojibwe. She is an activist for land return and has been an organizer for many anti-pipeline protests.
Basil H. Johnston was an Anishinaabe writer, storyteller, and scholar in Ontario and a residential school survivor. He wrote a memoir in 1988 called Indian School Days that was one of the first memoirs by an Ojibwe writer and speaker of the language about what he experienced there. He was a prolific writer and has an extensive bibliography.
If you’re interested in poetry, Kimberly M Blaeser, White Earth Band of Minnesota, is a professor and was the Poet Laureate of Wisconsin as well.