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Springs make this small community the perfect place to write. The winter blizzards and being snowbound let the children have a day off from school and give the excuse to a writer to stay inside and work. With ski resorts in the hills behind Little Traverse Bay and the deepest natural harbor on the
Two new books for 2006 are the result of several years of my researching and writing. Both are about the Harbor Springs area, and both are about the Odawa , the local American Indian tribe. The first is a combination of old and new, featuring Andrew J. Blackbird and Raymond Kiogima . For over twenty years Ray Kiogima has been teaching the Odawa language and compiling a dictionary. His work is being made available in the book that I edited, Odawa Language and Legends: Andrew J. Blackbird and Raymond Kiogima . Not only are over one thousand English to Odawa words included, but Kiogima has translated the stories that were put on tapes in the nineteen forties by his ancestors. He has also added some stories of his own, even one from his own experience with the legendary “ Bearwalk .” The Blackbird part of the book is a reprinting of the 1887 history that includes Blackbird’s “Ottawa-Chippewa” grammar and vocabulary. Now people interested in the Odawa language can compare and contrast words in the same volume.
The second book is The Odawa Before and After Smallpox Bioterrorism . This book is being published by Edwin Mellon Press, an academic publisher in
