Plaintive tones of a flute, with accompanying drum, begin each tape. Littrell's voicing and tone belong to the kind of reader children love, the librarian or teacher who pulls them into a story. They play chess and are thankful for the smallpox vaccine that limits an epidemic. Indians attend the Catholic mission school and purchase trade goods: cloth, buttons, needles, scissors, and decorative beads. Omakayas's father, a trader, is of mixed blood. To survive, everyone must help with the hard work, such as scraping a smelly moose hide, child care, carrying water, and the harvesting and processing of wild rice and maple sugar.
She experiences spirituality and honoring, ghost stories and other story-telling, the power of dreams and mythology, healing arts, relationships with animals, and a rich, extended family life. Omakayas enjoys a pet crow, curls up in skins to keep warm in winter, loses her baby brother to smallpox, and endures a bothersome brother named Pinch. In this excellent choice for family listening, Omakayas, age eight, a member of the Wolf Clan of the Anishinabe division of the Ojibwa, moves through the year 1847 in the Lake Superior area. The first three novels follow the childhood years of a girl, Omakayas, whose people are the Anishinabe (also known as Chippewa) they are sometimes referred to by the name of their language, Ojibwe. MLA style: "The Birchbark House." The Free Library. Louise Erdrich has a series of five young adult novels, together known by the title of the first book in the series, The Birchbark House.
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