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My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks : Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation, 1900-1940 /

When Ojibwe historian Brenda Child uncovered the Bureau of Indian Affairs file on her grandparents, it was an eye-opening experience. The correspondence, full of incendiary comments on their morals and character, demonstrated the breathtakingly intrusive power of federal agents in the early twentiet...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Child, Brenda J., 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: St. Paul, Minnesota : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Writing Reservation Histories
  • A Family at Work
  • Marriage and Work on the Reservation: Fred Auginash or Nahwahjewun of Big Sandy Lake
  • The Welfare of the Family: Practicing Religion on the Reservation
  • Families at Work
  • An Ojibwe Fishery Story: Ojibwe Labor During World War I
  • Jingle Dress Dancers in the Modern World: The Influenza of 1918-19
  • My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks: Labor, Gender, and the Great Depression.