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Birchbark Books, also known by its full name, Birchbark Books & Native Arts, is an independent bookstore in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the Kenwood neighborhood. Selling both books and works of art, it was founded by Pulitzer Prize –winning Native American novelist Louise Erdrich ( Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians [ 2 ] ) in 2001.
Birch bark or birchbark is the bark of several Eurasian and North American birch trees of the genus Betula. For all practical purposes, birch bark's main layers are the outer dense layer, white on the outside, and the inner porous layer ( cambium ).
The Birchbark House is a 1999 indigenous juvenile realistic fiction novel by Louise Erdrich, and is the first book in a five book series known as The Birchbark series. The story follows the life of Omakayas and her Ojibwe community beginning in 1847 near present-day Lake Superior .
It is the second novel in "The Birchbark" series that began with The Birchbark House. [1] [2] The two novels both feature the family of the Ojibwe girl Omakayas.
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Chickadee is a 2012 historical fiction novel by American author Louise Erdrich, the fourth book in The Birchbark House series. Moving the story fourteen years into the future, the novel follows Omakaya's twin sons, Chickadee and Makoons, as the family moves further into the Great Plains. When Chickadee is kidnapped, he embarks on a journey to ...
The Birchbark series. The Birchbark House (1999) The Game of Silence (2005) The Porcupine Year (2008) Chickadee (2012) Makoons (2016) Poetry. Jacklight (1984)
Birchbark biting is one of the oldest Indigenous art forms, historically practiced by women of the Subarctic and Northeastern Woodlands of Canada and the United States. [1] While most birchbark biters created designs with lines, Merasty used a pointillist approach and created complex symmetrical images of flowers, insects, animals, and ...