The Birchback House by Louise Erdrich
Some moments of resistance are:
The refusal of some men to move their families west of the Mississippi River.
Fishtail going to school to learn the white man’s markings to better understand treaties so he is not tricked into something.
Some moments of assimilation:
The practice of using guns.
Allowing Angeline and Fishtail to go to school.
Using the game chess as a gambling tool.
Wearing a cross on one’s clothing.
Making use of the white man’s vaccine during the smallpox epidemic.
Old Tallow using blanket and velvet swatches to patch her winter coat.
Deydey becoming a trader to help support his family.
For some reason, I can only come up with more assimilations because I think Erdrich focused on those situations more than the Ojibwa resisting the on coming takeover of white people.
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