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.