Omakayas cares for her family because she knew that with the winter comes a smallpox epidemic. The community in each season works together to hunt, build, gather, and survive. The circular motion of the Ojibwa culture is represented through the motions of the four seasons, Neebin (summer), Dagwaging (fall). Īfter the prologue, the novel continues through the eyes of a seven-year-old young girl, Omakayas ("her name means "little frog" because her first step was a hop). The Birchbark House has received positive reviews and was a 1999 National Book Award Finalist for young people's fiction. The story follows the life of Omakayas and her Ojibwe community beginning in 1847 near present-day Lake Superior.
The Birchbark House is a 1999 indigenous juvenile realistic fiction novel by Louise Erdrich, and is the first book in a five book series known as The Birchbark series.
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