Holding our world together : Ojibwe women and the survival of community /
Child, Brenda J., 1959-
Holding our world together : Ojibwe women and the survival of community / Brenda J. Child. - New York : Viking, 2012. - xxviii, 209 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. - Penguin library of American Indian history . - Penguin library of American Indian history. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
9780670023240 0670023248
2011036175
Ojibwa women--History.
Ojibwa women--Social conditions.
Ojibwa women--Economic conditions.
E99.C6 / C48 2012
977.004/97333
Holding our world together : Ojibwe women and the survival of community / Brenda J. Child. - New York : Viking, 2012. - xxviii, 209 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. - Penguin library of American Indian history . - Penguin library of American Indian history. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
9780670023240 0670023248
2011036175
Ojibwa women--History.
Ojibwa women--Social conditions.
Ojibwa women--Economic conditions.
E99.C6 / C48 2012
977.004/97333