My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks

My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks
Author: Brenda J. Child
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2014
Genre: Ojibwa Indians
ISBN: 0873519388


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"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"--


My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Brenda J. Child
Categories: Ojibwa Indians
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society

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"Child uses her grandparents' story as a gateway into discussion of various kinds of labor and survival in Great Lakes Ojibwe communities, from traditional rici
Holding Our World Together
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: Brenda J. Child
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-16 - Publisher: Penguin

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A groundbreaking exploration of the remarkable women in Native American communities. Too often ignored or underemphasized in favor of their male warrior counter
Boarding School Seasons
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Brenda J. Child
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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Looks at the experiences of children at three off-reservation Indian boarding schools in the early years of the twentieth century.
American Indian Beadwork
Language: en
Pages: 68
Authors: J.F. "Buck" Burshears
Categories: Crafts & Hobbies
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-18 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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A handicraft guide to American Indian beadwork for those seeking the fundamentals of construction and ideas of design—fully illustrated throughout. American I
Centering Anishinaabeg Studies
Language: en
Pages: 710
Authors: Jill Doerfler
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-01 - Publisher: MSU Press

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For the Anishinaabeg people, who span a vast geographic region from the Great Lakes to the Plains and beyond, stories are vessels of knowledge. They are bagijig