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My grandfather's knocking sticks : Ojibwe family life and labor on the reservation / Brenda J. Child.

Child, Brenda J., 1959- (Author).

Summary:

"Child uses her grandparents' story as a gateway into discussion of various kinds of labor and survival in Great Lakes Ojibwe communities, from traditional ricing to opportunistic bootlegging, from healing dances to sustainable fishing. The result is a portrait of daily work and family life on reservations in the first half of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780873519243 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0873519248 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: St. Paul, Minnesota : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2014]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: Writing Reservation Histories -- A Family at Work -- 1. Marriage and Work on the Reservation: Fred Auginash or Nahwahjewun of Big Sandy Lake -- 2. The Welfare of the Family: Practicing Religion on the Reservation -- Families at Work -- 3. An Ojibwe Fishery Story: Ojibwe Labor During World War I -- 4. Jingle Dress Dancers in the Modern World: The Influenza of 1918-19 -- 5. My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks: Labor, Gender, and the Great Depression -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Photo Credits

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Subject:
Auginash, Fred, 1888-1957.
Auginash, Jeanette, 1905-
Ojibwa Indians > History > 20th century.
Ojibwa Indians > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Ojibwa Indians > Social conditions > 20th century.
Red Lake Indian Reservation (Minn.)
Subsistence hunting > Minnesota.
Wild rice > Harvesting > Minnesota.
Prohibition > Minnesota > Red Lake Indian Reservation > Anecdotes.
Ojibwa Indians > Biography.

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