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

By: Publisher: St. Paul, Minnesota : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2014]Description: 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780873519243 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Ojibwe family life and labor on the reservation
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 977.6/82 23
LOC classification:
  • E99.C6 C495 2014
Other classification:
  • HIS028000 | SOC021000
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.

"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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index.

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