One ordinary afternoon in class

How do you help young children learn more about Native Americans than the cultural stereotypes found in children's books and in the media

and necessary addition to school libraries and classrooms

These issues of decolonization are highlighted in the trajectory of treaty language associated with relationships to land and their present-day importance

Louise Phelps Kellogg

Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories language studies One ordinary afternoon in classA language carries a people's memories, whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences, as communal history, or as humorous tales. This collection of stories from Anishinaabe elders offers a history of a people at the same time that it seeks to preserve the language of that people. Based on interviews Treuer conducted with ten elders this anthol ogy presents the elders' stories transcribed in Ojibwe with English translation on facing pages.