Wild Rice and the Ojibway People

Wild Rice and the Ojibway PeopleWild rice has always been essential to life in the Upper Midwest and neighboring Canada. In this far reaching book, Thomas Vennum, Jr., uses travelers' narratives, historical and ethnological accounts, scientific data, historical and contemporary photographs and sketches, his own field work, and the words of Indian people to examine the importance of this wild food to the Ojibway people. He details the technology of harvesting and processing, from

When young Donald and his friends head down to the water to play

The people themselves call it Anishinaabemowin

In both places

We are richer for the knowledge

"Reading this second edition is like visiting with a dear friend

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and to Ama and her traditional people

Margaret Treuer

Sheinkin offers a thought-provoking narrative about the evolution of football and the development of boarding schools such as the Carlisle Indian School

One day he and the other children from the reserve were taken aboard and transported to a residential school

then lick the sweet meat from its hard core of bones

It challenges scholars to add the figure of the elder to their categories for studying religion and urges them to rethink the category of tradition as something fluid rather than fixed