Linda LeGarde Grover Books in Order

Linked stories follow an Ojibwe community preserving family ties and traditions through forced schooling, displacement, and social change. Across generations, storytelling connects personal grief and survival with the cultural knowledge elders pass to those who follow.

Three Ojibwe women leave home for work, education, and love, yet repeatedly return to a northern Minnesota land allotment. Their intertwined lives connect family struggles and changing relationships with questions of belonging, cultural survival, and tribal self-determination.

Fifty short essays follow an Ojibwe year around the place now called Duluth. Through seasons, ceremonies, family meals, work, and play, Grover considers the practices and stories linking people to the land and to a good life.

After their mother surrenders them to county care and disappears, sisters Azure and Rain endure a succession of foster homes. Returning to their extended Ojibwe family brings belonging, new challenges, and stories shaped by generations of loss.

Grover blends family history, Ojibwe stories, myth, and imagined lives around Lake Superior's Point of Rocks. The interconnected accounts trace migration, kinship, trauma, and cultural endurance across generations bound to a particular place.

Poems in English and Ojibwe form a collective family and community memoir spanning creation stories, historical violence, and everyday life. Elders, children, and spiritual beings give voice to traditions that endure through displacement and loss.

A discovery on Half-Dime Hill exposes a fifty-year-old secret as Margie fights to preserve her family's allotment from casino development. Uncovering buried crimes draws the community's past into its present struggles over land, memory, and family.