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Author:
Child, Brenda J., 1959-
Title:
Holding our world together : Ojibwe women and the survival of community / Brenda J. Child.
Publisher:
Penguin Books,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
209 p. : map ; 18 cm.
Subject:
Ojibwa women.
Ojibwa women--Economic conditions.
Ojibwa women--Social conditions.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-198) and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
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.
Series:
Penguin library of American Indian history.
ISBN:
0143121596 (pbk.)
9780143121596 (pbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)795167052
Locations:
TKPE492 -- Maquoketa Public Library (Maquoketa)

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