Book
The Ojibwa of Western Canada, 1780 to 1870
Minnesota Historical Society Press • St. Paul • Published In 1994 • Pages: xviii, 288
By: Peers, Laura L. (Laura Lynn).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The western Ojibwa are the descendants of Ojibwa people who migrated into the West from their settlements around the Great Lakes in the late eighteenth century. This work traces their origins, adaptation to the West, and the way in which they coped with the many challenges they faced in the first century of their history in that region between the years 1780 to 1870 (p. ix). These challenges, examined in detail in this study, involved the surviving of epidemic disease, the rise and fall of the fur trade, the depletion of game in the region, the establishment of European settlements in the area, the loss of tribal lands, and the Canadian government's assertion of political control over them.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Hunting and trapping
- External trade
- External relations
- Warfare
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ojibwa
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1780-1870
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Central Ojibwa: prairie provinces, western Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Laura Peers
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-277)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94031544
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ojibwa Indians