My grandfather's knocking sticks : Ojibwe family life and labor on the reservation /
Ojibwe family life and labor on the reservation
Brenda J. Child.
- 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index.
"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"--