The Ojibwe are an Indigenous people native to Southern Canada and the Northern Midwestern United States. Tanya Talaga, the author of Seven Fallen Feathers, is Ojibwe.
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The timeline below shows where the term Ojibwe appears in Seven Fallen Feathers. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Prologue
An Ojibwe legend describes the story of a giant named Nanabijou. By stomping around the large body...
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One day, the Ojibwe took in a Sioux man who claimed to be lost and in need of help....
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...betrayed Nanabijou’s secret, Nanabijou fell down and turned from flesh and blood to stone. The Ojibwe were on their own from that moment on.
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...city is the “white” side, and the Fort William side of the city—located on the Ojibwe’s traditional lands near the powerful Kaministiquia (or Kam) River—is the “red” one.
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...nation building of Canada” began—this is where the British Army began acquiring land from the Ojibwe, building railroads, and growing the country. As Port Arthur began to flourish, more and more...
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Chapter 1: Notes from a Blind Man
...of 2011 to speak with NAN’s grand chief, Stan Beardy. The daughter of a half-European, half-Ojibwe mother and a Polish father, Talaga flies from Toronto to talk with Beardy about the...
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...From that spot, Talaga can see Animikii-wajiw, or Thunder Mountain, a spiritual center for the Ojibwe of Fort William First Nation. Stan tells Talaga that he believes that Jordan was chased...
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Chapter 4: Hurting from the Before
...a carbon capture site for many of the Earth’s emissions, is one of the largest Ojibwe settlements in the north. It’s a very traditional place, and most children grow up speaking...
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Chapter 8: River, Give Me My Son Back
...DFC: Robyn Harper in 2007, and Kyle Morrisseau in 2009. Kyle was the grandson of Ojibwe painter Norval Morrisseau, often called the “Picasso of the North.” Norval was a survivor of...
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