Word: chippewa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CHIPPEWA FALLS...
Fineday, who already holds a B.A. in English and a law degree, has spent years working for tribes, practicing law and helping American Indian people in Minnesota. She is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa tribe, and she and her two daughters have lived on a reservation in Minnesota...
...nineteenth century artist who has been mostly forgotten by history. But the exhibition attempts to cover too much ideological ground, and unfortunately trivializes its subject. Edmonia Lewis, the first African-American woman to make her living as a sculptor, was the daughter of a Black father and a Chippewa Indian mother. Longfellow, though his reputation has been eclipsed by that of Walt Whitman in the past century, was the most famous living American poet of his time...
...READER WHO HAS NOT followed the doings of Louise Erdrich's bewitched North Dakota Chippewas since her first novel, Love Medicine (missing The Beet Queen and Tracks for no good reason), finds in the fourth telling of the story that not much has changed. That's good; most of the same powerful characters are still around causing trouble, some as hovering spirits, some as living beings. A few years have passed, and in The Bingo Palace (HarperCollins; 274 pages; $23) we are close to present time, but reservation life is still a shabby, cross-cultural muddle. And Erdrich, herself part...
...first activity on that list is drinking beer. Wisconsin is the home of Miller's humungous Milwaukee brewery, which gives tours five days a week. Other small breweries are scattered across the state, Including Leinenkugel in Chippewa Falls (now regrettably owned by Miller), Huber's in Monroe and Capital brewery in Madison...