Rosalyn R. LaPier

Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, The University of Montana

Society

How a Native American Coming-of-Age Ritual is Making a Comeback

As one Ojibwe cultural leader recently told me, after a berry fast, the young woman is looked up to as a “leader” by her peers. It is “a beautiful and intentional year-long consideration of the power of womanhood,” she said.

February 11, 2020