Cover image for My grandfather's knocking sticks : Ojibwe family life and labor on the reservation / Brenda J. Child.
Title:
My grandfather's knocking sticks : Ojibwe family life and labor on the reservation / Brenda J. Child.
ISBN:
9780873519243
Personal Author:
Child, Brenda J., 1959-
Publication Information:
St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2014]
Physical Description:
242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
Personal Subject:
Auginash, Fred, 1888-1957.

Auginash, Jeanette, 1905-1987.
Geographic Term:
Red Lake Indian Reservation (Minn.)
Subject Term:
Subsistence hunting--Minnesota

Wild rice -- Harvesting--Minnesota

Prohibition--Minnesota--Red Lake Indian Reservation -- Anecdotes

Ojibwe people -- History 20th century

Ojibwe people -- Social life and customs 20th century

Ojibwe people -- Social conditions 20th century

Ojibwe people -- Biography
Genre:
Minnesota authors
OCLC Number:
ocn880966067
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