Ojibwe Writer Celebrates The Beauty Of 'Rez Life'

The stories about Native Americans who maintain their lives tend to concentrate on difficulties - alcoholism, drugs, violence and poverty. At Rez Life: Ojibwe's writer David Treuer is dedicated to capturing stories about the beauty of life in an Indian reservation while traveling.

"We have a very strong attachment to these places," he told NPR Neil Conan. "This is the importance of this book to a certain extent - the emotions of our depths and the feelings about these places and homes."

Treuer grew up in Minnesota's Leech Lake Reservation as the son of Ojibwe's mother and Austrian Holocaust survivors. He acknowledges that there are many challenges in booking living but he said that most treatments in the history of Native Americans have not reported the benefits of this experience.

Trull, who wrote several novels about Native American life, talks about his first discoveries of nonfiction works.

"We are very pleased that the booking is the heritage of our hometown.These remnants are reserved for us to use and we will continue to live so that our rights are my It belongs to ours, we have the right to reserve, but they are also beyond the scope of the reservation. "

"For me, the fact seems to be a surplus of reservations. More things More difficulties, but there may be more happiness There may be more pain, but more There are more opportunities ... More things, this is true - this is a big surprise for me. "

There are many ways to cultural life. It will follow by our intimacy, political system, geography etc. When threatened, then your culture and the social structure of your whereabouts will be threatened .... We can not highly appreciate our efforts to strengthen and promote the use of mother tongues in the country. "

The author's story that he grew up on the bank of Minnesota's Lake Leech Ojibwe Reserve is intertwined with the growth of the people of Ojibwe and other indigenous tribes. Trull wrote that "daily life is related to tragedy", but at the same time, it also points out that it is full of pride and deep love for tradition. The author recalls the sharp historical analysis of the personal memories of memorable "rez" persons, such as tribal police, picketers, fishermen - and the historical events of Native American, and for most people the Indian culture Reveal attitude. local people. He told frankly about the "comfortable troubles" found in the hearts of a mixed-family family and the long-term problems of alcohol, poverty and the crime faced by residents in various places. The author also criticizes the tribal government with special attention to corruption and clonism, but these corruption and clonism are many of their characteristics.

A slim, beautiful and painful novel written by Canadian Ojibwa author Richard Wagames, is a story of Franklin Starlight, Franklin Starlight is a 16-year-old Indian boy who lived in the mountains of British Columbia until the end of the last century is. Franklin was satisfied with the peaceful life and the wilderness on the farm, but he was interested in where he came from. To see that boy, Franklin reluctantly went to an aged dormitory My father was disappointed many times, so I asked Franklin to take me to nearby mountains. Bury him, "it will disturb the warrior. Franklin reluctantly agreed to do so.