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Sacred Stories

Gross, Lawrence W. “Cultural Sovereignty and Native American Hermeneutics in the Interpretation of the Sacred Stories of the Anishinaabe.” Wicazo Sa Review 18, no. 2 (2003): 127–34.

  • Discusses folklore created to resist colonialism—including stories about Wenabozho fighting Paul Bunyan

Treuer, Anton. Living Our Language : Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001.

cover of book: Living our Language by Anton Treuer

Beardslee, Lois. Lies to Live By. East Lansing, Mich: Michigan State University Press, 2003.

Dunn, Anne M, and Cynthia Holmes. Winter Thunder : Retold Tales. Duluth, Minn: Holy Cow! Press, 2001.

cover of book Winter Thunder: Retold Tales by Anne M. Dunn

Vizenor, Gerald Robert. Summer in the Spring : Anishinaabe Lyric Poems and Stories. New ed. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.

Blaeser, Kimberly M. Stories Migrating Home : A Collection of Anishinaabe Prose. Bemidji, Minn: Loonfeather Press, 1999.

Wilson, Maggie, and Sally J Cole. Rainy River Lives : Stories Told by Maggie Wilson. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

Johnston, Basil. Ojibway Tales. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.

Johnston, Basil. The Manitous : The Spiritual World of the Ojibway. St. Paul, Minn: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001.

cover of book: The Manitous: The Spiritual World of the Ojibway by Basil Johnston