Title: Change for continuity : the people of a Thousand Lakes /
Authors: Rohrl, Vivian J.
Publisher: University Press of America,
Year: 1981
Subjects: Ojibwa Indians Social life and customs; Indians of North America Minnesota Social life and customs.; Mille Lacs Indian Reservation (Minn.)
Contents: I. The original people [Aboriginal or Native peoples, First Nations] -- Social organization -- The behavior at Mille Lacs -- The concept of time -- The value orientations -- II. The Mille Lacs community -- yesterday and today -- Historical background of Mille Lacs Lake reservation -- Location of Limme Lacs reservation -- The Indian village -- Topography of the Indian village -- Relations to other Chippewa groups -- Relations to Canadian Chippewa Indians -- Relation to urban and to local non-Indian -- The voyage of the Onishonabeg -- III. Uses of the land; ways of learning a living -- The environment -- The economic situation -- Work groups -- The deer hunt -- The role of wild rice -- Shelter and clothing -- Customs and concepts -- IV. Social organization -- Groups at Mille Lacs Lake -- The dodaim -- Kinship behavior -- The drum societies -- Decision-making procedures -- How the Sioux got the drum -- V. Ideology and related ritual -- Recent affiliations -- The midewiwin -- The drum dance -- Symbolism of the drum -- Orientation towards nature -- Curing -- Belief in the supernatural vis-a-vis Christianity -- The war party -- VI. The meaning of the drums -- The relationship of the drums to the Midewiwin -- Membership of the drums -- Significance of drum society membership -- Comparison of the drum societies with the Midwiwin -- The exchange of gifts at drum dances -- Analysis of the exchange of gifts at the drum dances -- Totemism, extended -- The drum in ethnohistorical perspective