The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives recovery some ruptures simply cannot be

some ruptures simply cannot be repaired

It grew out of an ongoing collaboration among scholars and practitioners from tribal nations

The stories contained in this collection reached Howard Webkamigad nearly eighty years after they were recorded

collaboratively made poem films accessible in the text through the new but already archaic use of QR codes

The latest volume in the Penguin Library of American Indian History

The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives recovery some ruptures simply cannot beA collective memoir in poetry of an Ojibwe family and tribal community, from creation myth to this day, updated with new poems. Reaching from the moment of creation to the cry of a newborn, The Sky Watched gives poetic voice to Ojibwe family life. In English and Ojibwe, those assembled here voices of history, of memory and experience, of children and elders, Indian boarding school students, tribal storytellers, and the Manidoog, the unseen beings who