![]() She was named Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop. She is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwa and lives with her daughters in Minnesota. This National Book Award finalist by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich is the first installment in an essential nine-book series chronicling 100 years in the life of one Ojibwe family, and includes beautiful interior black-and-white artwork done by the author. This young adult novel is the story of a year. This study guide contains the following sections: This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion and a Free Quiz on The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich. LOUISE ERDRICH is the author of many critically acclaimed and best-selling books. The Birchbark House Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. ![]() Age Range: 9 - 12 years, Grade level: 3-7 Then one winter night, the satisfying rhythms of their life are shattered when a visitor comes to their lodge, bringing with him an invisible enemy that will change things forever. ![]() Every summer they build a new birchbark house every fall they go to ricing camp to harvest and feast they move to the cedar log house before the first snows arrive, and celebrate the end of the long winter at maple sugaring camp. Although the chimookoman (white people) claim more and more of their land, life continues much as it always has. Omakayas and her family live on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. ![]() The story of a young Ojibwa girl living on an island in Lake Superior in 1847. ![]()
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