Sasha Maria Suarez: An Ojibwe Home in the City

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Birchbark Bizhiw 1629 Hennepin Avenue #275 Minneapolis, MN 55403 (entrance map) Join us as we celebrate the publication of An Ojibwe Home in the City: White Earth Women and Community Organizing in Minneapolis by our former (but always forever!) Birchbark bookseller Sasha Maria Suarez! She will be joined in conversation by Ojibwe scholar and Guggenheim fellow, Brenda J. Child. The story of generations of Ojibwe women who built a thriving Indigenous home in the urban heart of Minneapolis. Minneapolis became home to White Earth Ojibwe people not through a centralized movement but through generations of determined, behind-the-scenes work by Ojibwe women. These women were organizing not in the streets, but in sewing clubs, churches, classrooms, and kitchens to bring people together and form interconnected communities. Rooted in care, tradition, and persistence, their labor laid the foundation for a thriving urban Indigenous population that continues to shape the city today. Far broader th

Who

• Sasha Maria SuarezAuthor

The book

• An Ojibwe Home in the City: White Earth Women and Community Organizing in MinneapolisSasha Maria Suarez

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Birchbark Books & Native Arts

2115 W 21st Street

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