A personal essay on the Ojibwe tradition of deer camp, exploring family, culture, and the deep connection to the land passed down through generations.

Deer hunting was important to their family story, and to keep telling it you needed to keep doing it, adding chapters to the ...

Once upon a time I wrote a little story about a fellow going to deer camp. “Gone to Little Buck” told about an older man who had been going to this camp for many years, and now that most of those in ...

It’s too bad we don't have the Old Guard’s stories on tape because no one told them better than they did. Hunters gather at a Minnesota deer camp in this undated photo. Deer camps are an important ...