"Illustrated with 70 color images of visually powerful historical and contemporary works, this book--which accompanies an exhibition of the same title opening in August 2013 at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York--reveals how Anishinaabe (also known in the United States as Ojibwe or Chippewa) artists have expressed the deeply rooted spiritual and social dimensions of their relations with the Great Lakes region."

Foreword. The Anishinaabeg and the Great Lakes / Kevin Gover -- Introduction. Water, Earth, Sky / David W. Penney -- Animikii miinwaa Mishibizhiw : Narrative Images of the Thunderbird and the Underwater Panther / Alan Corbiere and Crystal Migwans -- Things Anishinaabe : Art, Agency, and Exchange across Time / Ruth B. Phillips -- The Anishinaabe Artistic Consciousness / Gerald McMaster -- Excerpt from Shrouds of White Earth / Gerald Vizenor.