Rainbow Stripe Whimsy Journal

The Little People and the Water of Life by Ronda Snow, illustrated by Eloy Bida. A beautifully told and illustrated story of when the little people gave the Anishinabe people the gift of maple syrup.

The Boy From Pickerel Lake by Steve Barse is a fictionalized biography chapter book about a young Dakota High School basketball star. Set in the early 1930’s, Bill Sheldon becomes the only Native high school player in South Dakota. The life story of Harold Barse, the author’s father.

The Wolf’s Trail, by Thomas D. Peacock, and published by Holy Cow! Press, this story tells of Zhi-Shay, an elder wolf, and a litter of young wolves living somewhere on the side of a hill overlooking the river that flows through Nagahchiwangong in Northern Minnesota. Zhi-Shay, who knows the whole story of the parallel relationship between wolves and the Ojibwe going all the way back to the beginning, sharing it with his nieces and nephews, and us. Replete with universal lessons, The Wolf’s Trail is the story of the Ojibwe, told by wolves, of what they were and have become, and the promise of their becoming.