The Chippewa Woman is a poem about an American Native, written by Duncan Campbell-Scott. The protagonist, a woman from the Chippewa tribe, is stranded ‘far from the fort’ on a frozen lake in winter, with a ‘sick baby’. The fort mentioned in this poem probably would be a place of refuge (and trading) for American Indians in winter. She is also ‘far from the hunters’, who would provide food for her and the baby; thus, she has to find her own food. There is a ‘great storm’ which causes the ‘millions of ice flakes’ to be ‘hurled by the wind’ in a wild and wintry blizzard. She is trying to fish through the ice, but can’t catch anything ‘all through the wild day’. Her hook is ‘bare’; she has no bait to tempt a fish! She is forced to use ‘her own