Ininatig's Gift of Sugar: Traditional Native Sugarmaking

by Laura Waterman Wittstock

Other authorsMichael Dorris (Foreword), Dale Kakkak (Photographer)
Hardcover, 1993

LCC

Juv E99 C6 W68 1993

Description

Describes how Indians have relied on the sugar maple tree for food and tells how an Anishinabe Indian in Minnesota continues his people's traditions by teaching students to tap the trees and make maple sugar.

Publication

Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Co., c1993.

Subjects

Tags

Ojibwe Indians--Social life and customs--Juvenile literature, Sugar maple--Tapping--Minnesota--Juvenile literature, Series: We are still here, Reading age: 8-12, Grades 3-6

Series

We Are Still Here: Native Americans Today

Awards

Minnesota Book Awards (Finalist — 1994)
CCBC Choices (1993)

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