Babimose

Auteur

Peter Razor (1928-2022) authored the award-winning While the Locust Slept, a memoir chronicling his time as a ward at the State Public School in Owatonna, Minnesota, in the 1930s. He also authored Wiijiwaaganag: More Than Brothers. He was an enrolled member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Nahgahchiwanong) and was a decorated Army veteran of the Korean War.

Texte du rabat

This book expands on the legend of Babimose, originally passed down as an oral history among Indigenous peoples. The story recalls a gifted Anishinaabe boy who lived south of Gichigami, now known as Lake Superior, who independently traveled among Indigenous nations in the 1750s, learning lessons of resilience that still resonate today.