Minong--the good place : Ojibwe and Isle Royale / Timothy Cochrane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cochrane, Timothy, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ojibwa Indians--Michigan--Isle Royale National Park--History.

Ojibwa Indians.

Ojibwa Indians--Michigan--Isle Royale National Park--Antiquities.

Isle Royale National Park (Mich.)--History.

Isle Royale National Park (Mich.).

Isle Royale National Park (Mich.)--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Minong (the Ojibwe name for Isle Royale) is the search for the history of the Ojibwe people's relationship with this unique island in the midst of Lake Superior. Cochrane uses a variety of sources: Ojibwe oral narratives, recently rediscovered Jesuit records and diaries, reports of the Hudson's Bay post at Fort William, newspaper accounts, and numerous records from archives in the United States and Canada, to understand this relationship to a place. What emerges is a richly detailed account of Ojibwe activities on Minong - and their slow waning in the latter third of the nine

Contents:

Contents; Foreword - Norman Deschampe; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Knowing Minong ; Chapter 2: Minong Narratives ; Chapter 3: On Minong ; Chapter 4: Removed from Minong ; Conclusion: The Good Place Today ; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-275) and index.

ISBN:

1-60917-350-3

OCLC:

808345454