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'Give us a little milk'article 1982 • White, Bruce M.
Ojibwa • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
Among the Ojibwa gift giving was an important social act, whether in personal relationships, trade, or diplomacy. White notes that without participating in the process of gift giving, a foreigner, regardless of whether or not he was a trader or diplo...A skilled game of exchangearticle 1987 • White, Bruce M.
Ojibwa • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This article probes the intercultural relations and perceptions in the fur trade between European traders and the Ojibwa. White discusses the importance of gift giving as a means of establishing rapport between the traders and the Ojibwa, the signifi...