Chippewa families
Subtitle: a social study of White Earth Reservation, 1938
By: M. Inez Hilger ; with a new introduction by Brenda J. Child and Kimberly M. Blaeser.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: St. Paul
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Ojibwa Indians -- Social conditions.; Ojibwa Indians -- Housing.; White Earth Indian Reservation (Minn.)
Description: During the summer and fall of 1938 Mary Inez Hilger, a sister of the Order of St. Benedict, lived on the White Earth Indian Reservation in northwestern Minnesota while she gathered data about housing conditions. Her work portrays both the traditional lifeways of 150 Chippewa families and the adaptations they made at a time of tremendous cultural change.

In a series of interviews, she collected personal stories and a wealth of material about living conditions, social life, and material culture on the reservation. Her research, commissioned by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as part of a survey of the Chippewa reservations in Minnesota, became the basis for her dissertation in social science, first published in 1939.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 1939.