Plums or Nuts : Ojibwe Stories of Anishinaabe Humor Anishinaabe stories take many forms and

stories take many forms and give shape and substance to things we believe

Il y a quatre parties dans la roue de médecine

This was a boarding school (residential school) run by the government

Whether he’s meeting with an auntie distraught over the imprisonment of her grandson

Their language is forbidden

Plums or Nuts : Ojibwe Stories of Anishinaabe Humor Anishinaabe stories take many forms andA 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