The Birchbark House

Industrial Age

The Birchbark House Author: Erdrich, Louise Buy at Amazon | BookShop.org Time Period: Industrial Age Time Frame: 1847 Geographic Area: North America Country: United States Topics: Ojibwe Nation, Plagues Indigenous Americans Genre: Fiction, Own Voices Reading Age: Middle Grade, Upper Middle Grade Format: Chapter Book Published: 2002 The Birchbark House Series:: 1) The Birchbark House 2) The Game of Silence 3) The Porcupine Year

American History > Industrial Age > Indigenous American History

"[In this] story of a young Ojibwa girl, Omakayas, living on an island in Lake Superior around 1847, Louise Erdrich is reversing the narrative perspective used in most children's stories about nineteenth-century Native Americans. Instead of looking out at 'them' as dangers or curiosities, Erdrich, drawing on her family's history, wants to tell about 'us', from the inside. The Birchbark House establishes its own ground, in the vicinity of Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' books." --The New York Times Book Review

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