Omakayas lives on an island in Lake Superior in 1850 as a
member of the Ojibwe tribe. Her life is
filled with pesky little brothers, loud-mouth cousins, and a grandmother who
wants to nurture the healer in Omakayas.
Her older sister teaches her the chimookomanag alphabet – a strange,
written language that she knows will help her in her future. A future that is quickly changing from the
life she imagined it would be. One day,
a group of refugees arrive on Omakayas’ island.
This group had been pushed out of their homes by the chimookomanag, or
white people, and many of their family members died or were separated along the
way. This is the day that Omakayas
realizes her life and the lives of her family will change and that Lake
Superior may not be the place she calls home for much longer.
Join Omakayas and her family as she struggles to lead a
normal life under an unknown threat in The
Game of Silence, the sequel to The
Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich.
Children in grades four and five who enjoy historical fiction and The
Little House books will enjoy this alternate and often unhighlighted part of
history.
For readers in 5th -7th grades.
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