My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation
- ISBN-10
- 0873519388
- ISBN-13
- 9780873519380
- Category
- Ojibwa Indians
- Pages
- 242
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Author
- Brenda J. Child
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"--
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