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- Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of the Community by Brenda J. Child
- Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community
She illuminates the lives of women such as Madeleine Cadotte, who became a powerful mediator between her people and European fur traders, and Gertrude Buckanaga, whose postwar community activism in Minneapolis helped bring many Indian families out of poverty.
Moving from the early days of trade with Europeans through the reservation era and beyond, Child offers a powerful tribute to the courageous women who sustained Native American communities through the darkest challenges of the past three centuries. A groundbreaking exploration of the remarkable women in Native American communities.
Too often ignored or underemphasized in favor of their male warrior counterparts, Native American women have played a more central role in guiding their nations than has ever been understood. Child details the ways in which women have shaped Native American life from the days of early trade with Europeans through the reservation era and beyond. The latest volume in the Penguin Library of American Indian History, Holding Our World Together illuminates the lives of women such as Madeleine Cadotte, who became a powerful mediator between her people and European fur traders, and Gertrude Buckanaga, whose postwar community activism in Minneapolis helped bring many Indian families out of poverty.
Drawing on these stories and others, Child offers a powerful tribute to the many courageous women who sustained Native communities through the darkest challenges of the last three centuries. Child Introduction by Colin Calloway Category: Native American History Category: Inspired by Your Browsing History.
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Campbell rated it liked it Shelves: Advance Reader Copy provided by Netgalley. Holding Our Worlds Together is less of a microhistory than I was expecting. Although there is a tight focus on the history of the Ojibwe tribe, Child also covers a large period of time in relatively few pages. This might have made it impossible to understand who the Ojibwe were as people as opposed to historical figures , except that Child has an excellent grasp of when and what kinds of personal accounts to include in an otherwise fact-to-fact ki Note: This might have made it impossible to understand who the Ojibwe were as people as opposed to historical figures , except that Child has an excellent grasp of when and what kinds of personal accounts to include in an otherwise fact-to-fact kind of narrative.
The personal accounts do more than just add spice to a historical narrative, they allow the author to include opinions and feelings that people had at the time they occurred. Child has done an excellent job of realistically representing the Ojibwe and their trials within a compact narrative.
Perhaps my only complaint is that it is a bit too short, as I would have enjoyed spending more time with the subject. Jan 02, Will rated it really liked it Shelves: Brenda Child's history of Ojibwe women is enlightening and informative. She starts with a history of Anishinaabe people immigrating from the St. Lawrence region of Quebec to the Great Lakes around the mid s and follows the gender dynamics of the Ojibwe peoples in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan until about She is a talented historian illuminating helpful points from primary sources and interviews conducted by herself.
She breaks her history into 6 chapters, each roughly focused on a Brenda Child's history of Ojibwe women is enlightening and informative. She breaks her history into 6 chapters, each roughly focused on a different location. I especially enjoyed her writing on more recent history.
That being said, her writing on the and s was concise despite wading through dates and treaties. Child's chapters on the Ojibwe during the Great Depression were a perfect mix of personal interviews and government documents--producing a history of high level government decisions strengthened by first accounts of Ojibwe living their lives throughout the difficulty.
I highly recommend this neat tome to anyone looking to bulk up on their history of Native peoples especially in the northern Midwest! Negotiating with traders, wild rice farming, beginning and maintaining grassroots organizations to empower and organize during urbanization are just a few of the methods gone into in detail.
Holding Our World Together
Paints an extremely clear picture of resiliency and these women's understanding of the importance of working for their common good while a breathtakingly ironic U. Excellent history for a more general audience. The chapter on Nett Lake was exceptional, while the one on Minneapolis provided a helpful corrective to the usual male-centered focus on Indian activism. May 01, MizLaT rated it really liked it. A captivating historical look at the Ojibwes who settled around the Mississippi and Lake Superior regions of the United States.
Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of the Community by Brenda J. Child
Child presents a view of women's roles over time, chronicling physical changes in geography from early settlements, to reservations, and on to urban areas, as well as familial changes over time. An important view for women's studies, this collection of research demonstrates how the Ojibwe women, with children in tow, took charge of the wild rice economy, became inte A captivating historical look at the Ojibwes who settled around the Mississippi and Lake Superior regions of the United States. An important view for women's studies, this collection of research demonstrates how the Ojibwe women, with children in tow, took charge of the wild rice economy, became interpreters and wives of fur traders, and entered into industrial occupations as tribal life diminished.
Soon, the cultivation of wild rice within the waters of the Great Lakes became a political issue requiring licensing. During the Great Depression, a "steady stream of whites" was noted entering the wild rice beds. As a result, many of the better wild rice beds have been ruined by whites gathering the crop in an immature state.
Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community
Child notes carefully, calling upon research and notes by various professionals and people living in the areas. I was struck by the Ojibwe's perseverance and struggle for cultural survival throughout the 's, 's reservation time , to the present day of urban migration.
This tribal community, like many others, found itself victimized by treaties never honored, pushed onto reservations of dwindling sizes, and taxed unfairly as other "predators" wished them gone. Child does an excellent job of presenting the necessary research for her historical presentation here. She remains objective, even as the truths of change and mistreatment emerge clearly for the reader. Her mission is well accomplished through it all; she beautifully illustrates the importance of Ojibwe women in the economic and social survival of the tribe, many of whose members continue to live in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan today.
Jun 14, Cheryl McNeil rated it really liked it. The narration is pleasant and unobtrusive. There is something additionally interesting about hearing Ojibwe names for things spoken, and not just written. After a while I knew what some of the words meant without translation, and that was kind of cool. Some of the history recounted will sound familiar, because it happened to all North American Indian nations: Child gives many anecdotes I wished there were more statistics; maybe the printed version has tables I missed in the audio that flesh out these aspects of Ojibwe experience.
And she does it without political vitriol or rhetoric. The facts speak for themselves. And there were a few surprises: Speaking of which, all I learned about wild rice and maple sugar collection got me interested enough that I contacted the Ojibwe http: The book is repetitive in places, and sometimes tries too hard to frame the information within an academic argument. I chose this book for the perspective of the Ojibwe culture from the female point of view.
In most history books, women are blurry shadows in the background. Just before this book, I read a biography on Crazy Horse. The only mention of females in his life are vague reference to a lover, a sick wife, and how many women were killed in attacks. I appreciated that this book highlights how important Ojibwe women were historically, and specifically what they did that made them so important.