“Chi-mewinzha: Ojibwe Stories from Leech Lake” by Dorothy Dora Whipple

In 2006, when she was 86 years old, Dorothy Dora Whipple was looking for a new challenge. A fluent and lifelong Ojibwe speaker, Dorothy had just finished a three-year project for the University of Minnesota, making and transcribing recordings of her language. But she knew right away what she wanted to tackle next: a book of her stories, in Ojibwe and English, with drawings to illustrate the stories and perhaps interest younger people in learning the language.