The Ojibwa Dance Drum: Its History and Construction Shoshone we learn to listen better

we learn to listen better to ourselves and all the beings who have secrets to share

Award-winning Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan explores her lifelong love of the living world and all its inhabitants

and her Zunzi (grandmother)

and the many landscapes of the Americas" (Catriona Menzies-Pike

The Ojibwa Dance Drum: Its History and Construction Shoshone we learn to listen betterHiding in a lake under lily pads after fleeing U. S. soldiers, a Dakota woman was given a vision over the course of four days instructing her to build a large drum and teaching her the songs that would bring peace and end the killing of her people. From the Dakota, the "big drum" spread throughout the Algonquian speaking tribes to the Ojibwe, becoming the centerpiece of their religious ceremonies. This edition of The Ojibwe Dance Drum, originally