![]() ![]() The novel begins starkly: ''The only person left alive on the island was a baby girl.'' The Indian voyagers who find her are too afraid of smallpox to touch her, but one among them does think of mentioning the child to his wife, whoįears nothing. ![]() ![]() ''The Birchbark House'' establishes its own ground, in the vicinity of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Instead of looking out at ''them'' as dangers or curiosities,Įrdrich, drawing on her family's history, wants to tell about ''us,'' from the inside. N ''The Birchbark House,'' a story of a young Ojibwa girl, Omakayas (pronounced oh-MAH-kay-ahs), living on an island in Lake SuperiorĪround 1847, Louise Erdrich is reversing the narrative perspective used in most children's stories about 19th-century Native Americans. Written and illustrated by Louise Erdrich. ![]()
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