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
History of the Ojibway People, Second Edition
Language: en
Pages: 342
Authors: William Whipple Warren
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07 - Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society

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First published in 1885 by the Minnesota Historical Society, the book has also been criticized by Native and non-Native scholars, many of whom do not take into
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.
Dog Flowers
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Danielle Geller
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-12 - Publisher: One World

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A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother’s life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family’s troubled