eluding analytic frameworks of invented tradition and naïve continuity

She makes jewel bearings at the plant

voluntarily or through compulsion

It challenges scholars to add the figure of the elder to their categories for studying religion and urges them to rethink the category of tradition as something fluid rather than fixed

We see her childhood spent learning Mohegan ceremonies and healing methods at the hands of her tribal grandmothers

Portage Lake: Memories of an Ojibwe Childhood queer studies eluding analytic frameworks of inventedMaude Kegg's memories build a bridge to a time when building birch bark wigwams and harvesting turtles were still part of the everyday life of a native girl in the mid west. In this bilingual book, this elder of the Minnesota Anishinaabe reminisces about her childhood. An English translation of each story appears on pages facing the original Ojibwe text, and the editor John Nicholds has included a full Ojibwe English glossary with study aids.