TY  - BOOK
AU  - Erdrich,Louise
TI  - The game of silence
T2  - Birchbark House series
SN  - 9780064410298
AV  - PZ7.E72554 Gam 2006
U1  - [Fic] 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - HarperTrophy, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - Ojibwa Indians
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Superior, Lake, Region
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
N1  - Includes author's note on the Ojibwe language and glossary and pronunciation guide of Ojibwe terms; Neebin (Summer) -- Dagwaging (Fall) -- Biboon (Winter) -- Zeegwun (Spring)
N2  - Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849. Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas's island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west. That day, Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, could be in danger: Her way of life. Her home
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