Plums or Nuts : Ojibwe Stories of Anishinaabe Humor Anishinaabe The Crown is the party

The Crown is the party against whom a First Nation must make its claim yet also determines the validity of the claim and controls its process of negotiation and resolution

The authors discuss the scholarship of Beatrice Blackwood

Darlene Klyne

Their language is forbidden

traditional land of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation

Plums or Nuts : Ojibwe Stories of Anishinaabe Humor Anishinaabe The Crown is the partyA master Ojibwe storyteller shares twenty five storiesoften bawdy, full of mischief and misbehaviorin Ojibwe and English. Larry Amik Smallwood had the gift of making people laugh. Of all the teachings Amik strove to pass along to his students, he cherished most the humor of his Ojibwe people. In this bilingual collection, Amik tells of his many adventures and those of others he knew. Learning to speak English in the first grade. A spectacular mishap