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Group identities in the boreal forest: the origin of the northern Ojibwa

Ethnohistory29 (2) • Published In 1982 • Pages: 75-102

By: Greenberg, Adolph M., Morrison, James.

Abstract
This paper investigates the '…major hypotheses regarding the migration and emergence of the Northern Ojibwa. Documentary evidence is provided which suggests that groups known today as Northern Ojibwa have inhabited the boreal forest at least since contact. Rather than a migration or general population movement, as Bishop (1970, 1974, 1975, 1976) argues, the 'emergence' of the Northern Ojibwa was nothing more than the diffusion of the term 'Ojibwa' to ethnic units known at contact under a host of different names -- among them Kilistinon or Cree, Monsoni, Muskego, and Gens des Teres ' (p. 75).
Subjects
Identification
Reviews and critiques
Internal migration
Historical reconstruction
culture
Ojibwa
HRAF PubDate
2000
Region
North America
Sub Region
Arctic and Subarctic
Document Type
article
Evaluation
Creator Type
Ethnologist
Document Rating
4: Excellent Secondary Data
Analyst
John Beierle ; 1998
Field Date
no date
Coverage Date
seventeenth - eighteenth centuries
Coverage Place
Northern Ojibwa: northern Ontario and eastern Manitoba, Canada
Notes
Adolph M. Greenberg ; James Morrison
Includes bibliographical references (p. 98-101)
LCCN
57043343
LCSH
Ojibwa Indians