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Tales of Nokomis
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by Patronella Johnston
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2000
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These simply told legends of the Ojibwa people are told as stories within a story.
The grandmother, Nokomis, uses the time she has with her grandchildren to wisely pass on the
stories of her people to the next generation.
The stories are richly enhanced by the native illustrations of Francis Kagige. Both the art
and the stories are unlike any white man's. They are simple and innocent yet deep with layers of thought. Something as simple as a lizard or a waterlily is given a story and significance.
I personally learned something very valuable about my heritage from this book. I not
only read of the native appreciation for the natural world but I learned that as a people we SEEK for the meaning of things around us, both in the physical world and in the spiritual.
What a great inheritance!
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