Child, Brenda J., 1959-

Holding our world together : Ojibwe women and the survival of community / Brenda J. Child. - New York : Viking, 2012. - xxviii, 209 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. - Penguin library of American Indian history . - Penguin library of American Indian history. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Women of the Great Lakes and Mississippi : everything was very systematic -- Madeline Island : Ojibwe women in fur trade society -- Reservations : holding our world together -- Nett Lake : wild rice and the Great Depression -- Mount Pleasant : metaphor of the muskrat -- Minneapolis : a renaissance of spirit.

Highlights the impact women have had on Native American life, describing the lives of Madeleine Cadotte, who mediated fur trades and Gertrude Buckanaga, a community activist who helped impoverished Indian families.

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Ojibwa women--History.
Ojibwa women--Social conditions.
Ojibwa women--Economic conditions.

E99.C6 / C48 2012

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