Recounts the legends, customs, and history of the Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin.

Cover title. Originally published: St. Paul, Minn. : Indian Country Press, Ã1979.

The Ojibway creation story --Original man walks the earth -- Original man and his grandmother No-ko'-mis -- The Earth's first people -- The great flood -- Waynaboozhoo and the search for his father -- Waynaboozhoo and his return to the people -- The seven grandfathers and the little boy -- The old man and the first midewiwin ceremony -- The clan system -- The pipe and the eagle -- The sweat lodge -- The seven fires -- The migration of the Anishinabe -- Stepping into modern history.