American Philosophical Society, 1983. — 244 p. The study describes and analyzes traditional Ojibwa religion and the changes it has undergone through the last three centuries, emphasizing the influence of Christian missions to the Ojibwas in effecting religious change, and examining the concomitant changes in Ojibwa culture and environment through the historical period....
St. Paul, MN: Borealis Books, 2010. — xix, 295 p. : ill., maps. On June 27, 1868, Hole in the Day (Bagonegiizhig) the Younger left Crow Wing, Minnesota, for Washington, DC, to fight the planned removal of the Mississippi Ojibwe to a reservation at White Earth. Several miles from his home, the self-styled leader of all the Ojibwe was stopped by at least twelve Ojibwe men and...
Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 1957. (Reprinted 1973). — 82 p. — (Quetico Foundation Series, No. 1.) A fascinating picture of the industrious life of the Ojibwa before the coming of the white man. The Indians lived in an intimate relationship with the forest and the spiritual forces they found in nature. They were completely dependent on wild game, trees, and plants...
Introduction and edition by Colin G. Calloway — Penguin Books, 2012. — 240 p. In this well-researched and deeply felt account, Brenda J. Child, a professor and a member of the Red Lake Ojibwe tribe, gives Native American women their due, detailing the many ways in which they have shaped Native American life. She illuminates the lives of women such as Madeleine Cadotte, who...
Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2018. — 168 p. In this deeply engaging oral history, Doug Williams, Anishinaabe elder, teacher and mentor to Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, recounts the history of the Michi Saagiig Nisnaabeg, tracing through personal and historical events, and presenting what manifests as a crucial historical document that confronts entrenched institutional narratives...
Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2018. — 168 p. In this deeply engaging oral history, Doug Williams, Anishinaabe elder, teacher and mentor to Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, recounts the history of the Michi Saagiig Nisnaabeg, tracing through personal and historical events, and presenting what manifests as a crucial historical document that confronts entrenched institutional narratives...
University of Manitoba Press, 2016. — 264 p. A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby’s story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of...
Foreword by Melissa L. Meyer — University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. — 176 p. In reminiscing about his early years on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation at the turn of the century, John Rogers reveals much about the life and customs of the Chippewas. He tells of food-gathering, fashioning bark canoes and wigwams, curing deerskin, playing games, and participating in sacred...
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1988. — 238 p. Winner of the 1989 Canadian Historical Association Regional History Certificate of Merit. Among Anglo-Canadian fur traders of the early 19th century, George Nelson (1786-1859) stands out for his interest in the life and ways of the Native people he encountered. His letter-journal gives a more detailed portrayal of Algonquian...
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 246 p. In Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River Jennifer S. H. Brown presents the dozens of stories and memories that A. Irving Hallowell recorded from Adam (Samuel) Bigmouth, son of Ochiipwamoshiish (Northern Barred Owl), at Little Grand Rapids in the summers of 1938 and 1940. The stories range widely across the lives of four...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 265 p. In the early nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries evangelical hymns into the Ojibwe language, regarding this music not only as a shared form of worship but also as a tool for rooting out native cultural identity. But for many Minnesota Ojibwe today, the hymns emerged from this history of material and cultural dispossession to...
Univ. Of Minnesota Pressq 2017. — 217 p. Long before it came to be known as Duluth, the land at the western tip of Lake Superior was known to the Ojibwe as Onigamiising, “the place of the small portage.” There the Ojibwe lived in keeping with the seasons, moving among different camps for hunting and fishing, for cultivating and gathering, for harvesting wild rice and maple...
University of Toronto Press, 2016. — 356 p. "Naamiwan’s Drum" follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. This drum, and forty other artefacts, were given away by a Canadian museum to an American Anishinaabe group that had no family or community connections to the collection. Many years passed before the drum was returned...
Michigan State University Press, 2016. — 196 p. Francis Pegahmagabow (1889–1952), an Ojibwe of the Caribou clan, was born in Shawanaga First Nation, Ontario. Enlisting at the onset of the First World War, he served overseas as a scout and sniper and became Canada’s most decorated Indigenous soldier. After the war, Pegahmagabow settled in Wasauksing First Nation, Ontario, where...
University of Manitoba Press, 2011. — 223 p. "Life Stages and Native Women" explores how life stages and responsibilities of Métis, Cree, and Anishinaabe women were integral to the health and well-being of their communities during the mid- 20th century. The book is rich with oral history conducted with fourteen Algonquian elders from the Canadian prairies and Ontario. These...
University of Nebraska Press, 2010. — 328 p. Cary Miller’s "Ogimaag: Anishinaabeg Leadership, 1760–1845" reexamines Ojibwe leadership practices and processes in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. At the end of the nineteenth century, anthropologists who had studied Ojibwe leadership practices developed theories about human societies and cultures derived from...
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963. — pp. 211-286. — (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin; Vol. 186. Anthropological Paper; No. 67). For comprehending the techniques of weaving, a study of examples in museums is inferior to observation of the process in the field. Yet, in the foreseeable future such observation will no longer be possible among the...
Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1951. — 204 p. — (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 146). In the 1930s, anthropologist Hilger traveled to nine reservations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan to record traditional Chippewa methods of raising children. Her study captures the essential details of Chippewa child life and provides a...
Columbia University Press, 2009. — 382 p. — (Religion and American Culture). Like many Native Americans, Ojibwe people esteem the wisdom, authority, and religious significance of old age, but this respect does not come easily or naturally. It is the fruit of hard work, rooted in narrative traditions, moral vision, and ritualized practices of decorum that are comparable in...
University of Minnesota Press, 1993. — 296 p. In this volume, Minnesota Anishinaabe elder Maude Kegg of the Mille Lacs Reservation reminisces about her childhood. Building birchbark and reedmat wigwams, boiling maple sap into syrup and harvesting turtles and wild rice are related in lyric detail. Dictated to John D. Nichols in Kegg’s native language, these compelling stories of...
Univ. Of Minnesota Press, 1992. — 176 p. Shows and describes Ojibwa daily life, looks at how they have adapted to modern times, and documents continuing traditions and rituals.