Very few studies have examined the worldview of the Anishinaabeg from within the culture itself and none have explored the Anishinaabe worldview in relation to their efforts to maintain their culture in the present-day world. This book fills that gap. Focusing mainly on the Minnesota Anishinaabeg, Lawrence Gross explores how their worldview works to create a holistic way of living, which the Anishinaabeg call the Good Life, or, mino-bimaadiziwin. However, as Gross also argues, the Anishinaabeg saw the end of their world early in the 20th century and experienced what he calls "postapocalypse stress syndrome. The book ends with a discussion how the values engendered by the worldview of the Anishinaabeg are finding expression as they seek to rebuild their society.