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N ight Flying Woman

N ight Flying Woman. Night Flying Woman. Written by Ignatia Broker, member of Minnesota's White Earth Ojibway tribe. A storyteller and local teacher in both the Ojibway tradition and modern schools. Founded the Minnesota Indian Historical Society. Died in 1987. Night Flying Woman.

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N ight Flying Woman

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  1. Night Flying Woman

  2. Night Flying Woman • Written by IgnatiaBroker, member of Minnesota's White Earth Ojibway tribe. • A storyteller and local teacher in both the Ojibway tradition and modern schools. • Founded the Minnesota Indian Historical Society. • Died in 1987.

  3. Night Flying Woman • This is the true story of Oona, a great-great-grandmother to many Minnesota Ojibway, born during a lunar eclipse at a time when white influence in Northern Minnesota was just beginning to manifest. • Night Flying Woman tells the story of one family spread over several generations through the eyes of Oona.

  4. Night Flying Woman • When she is five, some of the clan group decides to move away from their forest homeland to the Rainy Lake area, where fur traders and trappers are disturbing the land much less than farmers and loggers. Oona's family goes with part of the group to the Nett Lake area.

  5. Night Flying Woman • Soon, a white man shows up with a paper that requires the people to move to the White Earth reservation. • Government policy at that time -- the 1840's – forced all northern Midwest U.S. Indians there into a kind of concentration camp.

  6. Night Flying Woman • Night Flying Woman reveals how the culture was preserved in secrecy and was never fully lost - despite the abuse and propaganda Indian children endured at white boarding schools.

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