"Brenda Child's moving portrayal of the often unrecognized but pivotal roles Ojibwe women played in community survival is, in its determination to record truth, itself an act of leadership–of intellectual sovereignty." –
Kimberly Blaeser, author of Apprenticed to Justice "An important, pathbreaking book, not merely a powerful corrective to books that focus on Indian males, but also a powerful corrective to the scholarship on Indian women largely written by non-Indian women."
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Jacqueline Peterson, Washington State University-Vancouver "Not only does [Child] describe how and why Ojibwe women were essential to the survival of their culture and community, through her scholarship she demonstrates how this work is being accomplished today." –
John Borrows, University of Minnesota
