My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks
Subtitle: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation, 1900-1940
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780873519243
Subjects: Indians of north america, social conditions; Indians of north america, social life and customs; Hunting, united states; Rice; Prohibition; Indians of north america, biography
Description: "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"--