Touchwood: A Collection of Ojibway Prose

Many Minnesotas Project #3

by Gerald Vizenor (Editor), William W. Warren (Contributor), George Copway (Contributor)

This anthology, edited by much-published Ojibway poet and fiction writer Gerald Vizenor, is the first of its kind. Since Ojibway did not become a written language until well into the twentieth century, all of its early writers used English, including William Warren and George Copway (both of whom were distinguished nineteenth century historians of the Ojibway people). Generous selections from their work are included here, together with that of John Rogers, a transitional figure whose memoirs and stories were first published a few decades ago. Contemporary Ojibway prose writing is represented here by selections from Vizenor himself, a long excerpt from Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine, and previously unpublished work by Jim Northrup and Bonnie Wallace. The cover of Touchwood is a contemporary work by Ojibway painter David Bradley. The inside artwork is all taken from Ojibway Sacred Scrolls.

Genres: Native American

180 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Gerald Robert Vizenor is an Anishinaabe writer and scholar, and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation. Vizenor also taught for many years at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was Director of Native American Studies. With more than 30 books published, Vizenor is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico.