Main Title |
Wild rice and the Ojibway people / |
Author |
Vennum, Thomas.
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Publisher |
Minnesota Historical Society Press, |
Year Published |
1988 |
OCLC Number |
17354204 |
ISBN |
0873512251; 9780873512251; 087351226X; 9780873512268 |
Subjects |
Ojibwa Indians--Food ;
Indians of North America--Food--Lake States ;
Wild rice--Lake States ;
Indians, North American ;
Oryza--history ;
Minnesota
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Internet Access |
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
ELAM |
E99.C6V46 1988 |
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Region 5 Library/Chicago,IL |
09/13/2022 |
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Collation |
ix, 357 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-349) and index. |
Contents Notes |
Publisher description: Wild rice has always been essential to life in the Upper Midwest and neighboring Canada. In this far-reaching book, Thomas Vennum, Jr., uses travelers' narratives, historical and ethnological accounts, scientific data, historical and contemporary photographs and sketches, his own field work, and the words of Indian people to examine the importance of this wild food to the Ojibway people. He details the technology of harvesting and processing, from seventeenth-century reports though modern mechanization. He explains the important place of wild rice in Ojibway ceremony and legend and depicts the rich social life of the traditional rice camps. And he reviews the volatile issues of treaty rights and litigations involving Indian problems in maintaining this traditional resource. A staple of the Ojibway diet and economy for centuries, wild rice has now become a gourmet food. With twentieth-century agricultural technology and paddy cultivation, white growers have virtually removed this important source of income from Indian hands. Nevertheless, the Ojibway continue to harvest and process rice each year. It remains a vital part of their social, cultural, and religious life. The plant -- As food -- In legend and ceremony -- Traditional Indian harvest -- The camps -- The economics -- The law -- The future. [Talks of the origin of the name for wild rice], pp. 5-6 -- Glossary of selected Ojibway ricing terms, pp. 329-330. |
Place Published |
St. Paul |
Alternate Title |
Wild rice |
PUB Date Free Form |
1988 |
BIB Level |
m |
Medium |
unmediated |
Content |
text |
Carrier |
volume |
Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
LCCN |
87038333 |
Merged OCLC records |
988466772 |
OCLC Time Stamp |
20220907213021 |
Language |
eng |
Origin |
OCLC |
Type |
CAT |
OCLC Rec Leader |
04939cam 2201021 a 45010 |