Book
The Ojibwa of southern Ontario
University of Toronto Press • Toronto • Published In 1991 • Pages:
By: Schmalz, Peter S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is an historical account of the Ojibwa from the seventeenth century to the 1990s. Based on oral traditions, supplemented by the usual documentary sources, Schmalz corrects many long standing historical errors and fills in numerous gaps in Ojibwa history. The document begins with a study of Ojibwa life before the arrival of Europeans in North America, with a particular focus on the peaceful trade relations and later warfare which developed between the Ojibwa and Iroquois. The golden age of the Ojibwa came in the eighteenth century with their close alliance with both the French and English, and their increasing dependence on guns, tools, and liquor at the expense of their traditional ways of life. The author describes the participation of the Ojibwa in the colonial wars in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the later establishment of the reserve system under British and later Canadian supervision which was intended to destroy the traditional Indian culture and assimilate them into mainstream society. 'The twentieth century has been something of an Ojibwa renaissance. Schmalz shows how Ojibwa participation in two world wars led to a desire to change conditions at home. Today [the 1990s] the Ojibwa are gaining some control over their children's education, their reserve, and their culture' (p. i).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Real property
- External trade
- External relations
- Public welfare
- Warfare
- Missions
- Education system
- 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.
- Historian
- 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
- seventeenth century - 1990s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Central Ojibwa: southern Ontario, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Peter S. Schmalz
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-319)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94137640
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ojibwa Indians