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Wild rice and the Ojibway people / Thomas Vennum, Jr.

Title
Wild rice and the Ojibway people / Thomas Vennum, Jr.
Author
Vennum, Thomas
Publication
St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1988.

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Child, Julia
Description
ix, 357 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 24 cm
Summary
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.
Alternative Title
Wild rice
Subject
  • Indians of North America > Food
  • Indians of North America > Food > Lake States
  • Indians, North American
  • Lake States
  • Minnesota
  • Ojibwa (Indiens) > Alimentation
  • Ojibwa Indians > Food
  • Ojibwa Indians > Food
  • Oryza > history
  • Wild rice
  • Wild rice > Lake States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-349) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The plant -- As food -- In legend and ceremony -- Traditional Indian harvest -- The camps -- The economics -- The law -- The future.
ISBN
  • 0873512251
  • 9780873512251
  • 087351226X
  • 9780873512268
LCCN
^^^87038333^
OCLC
17354204
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library