As Sacred to Us: Simon Pokagon's Birch Bark Stories in Their Contexts

Originally published in 1893 and 1901, Simon Pokagon's birch bark stories were printed on thinly peeled and elegantly bound birch bark. In this edition, these rare booklets are reprinted with new essays that set the stories in cultural, linguistic, historical, and even geological context. Experts in Native literary traditions, history, Algonquian languages, the Michigan landscape, and materials conservation illuminate the thousands of years of Indigenous knowledge that Pokagon elevated in his stories. This is an essential resource for teachers and scholars of Native literature, Neshnabé pasts and futures, Algonquian linguistics, and book history.

Author: Blaire Morseau
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 10/01/2023
Pages: 166
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.83w x 0.39d
ISBN13: 9781611864625
ISBN10: 1611864623
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
- Literary Collections | Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
- History | Indigenous Peoples in the Americas

About the Author
Blaire Morseau is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She was the first archivist for the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, where she is an enrolled citizen.