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Holding our world together : Ojibwe women and the survival of community / Brenda J. Child.
Penn Museum Library E99.C6 C48 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Child, Brenda J., 1959-
- Series:
- Penguin library of American Indian history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ojibwa women--History.
- Ojibwa women.
- Ojibwa women--Social conditions.
- Ojibwa women--Economic conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, 2012.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780670023240
- 0670023248
- OCLC:
- 733230611
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