Multicultural

The Game of Silence
Louise Erdrich

This is the sequel to The Birchbark House, and continues the story of an Ojibwe girl named Omakayas and her family living in the Apostle Islands on Lake Superior in 1850. The story contains many realistic images of Ojibwe people in that era in regard to traditional cultural activities and in the ensuing changes that take place with the coming of white people. Both cultural and ethnic portrayals accurately convey many social issues and problems; an honest description of Ojibwe life on the shores of Lake Superior in the mid-19th century. Sometimes referred to as a Native American Little House, this story does not provide views of hostility and violence in European settlers' treatment of the natives and it seems as though Native Americans and settlers live in peace, if not common understanding.