GRAND PORTAGE, Minn. The two-dozen schoolchildren sat in a circle for about an hour, enthralled, as Gordon Jourdain regaled them with tales of the Creator and the origins of their Ojibwe people. As the session wound down, one boy raised his hand and asked, to a chorus of giggles, “How did girls come to be on the planet?”
After a brief introduction on his book “Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were to Afraid to Ask,” Wednesday, March 9, at the Brainerd Public Library, Anton Treuer opened the presentation by introducing himself in the Ojibwe language.
GRAND PORTAGE, Minn. (AP) — The two-dozen schoolchildren sat in a circle for about an hour, enthralled, as Gordon Jourdain regaled them with tales of the Creator and the origins