Book
History of the Ojibways, based upon traditions and oral statements
Minnesota Historical Society Press • 5 • Published In 1885 • Pages: xvii, 411
By: Warren, William Whipple.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is a history of the Ojibwa people from the seventeenth century to approximately the 1850s, based on oral traditions and historical documents. The study is divided into two major parts, preceded by a biographical sketch of the principal author William W. Warren. Part 1, written by Warren, deals with Ojibwa history based on the traditions and oral statements of the Ojibwa themselves. This section contains a wealth of information on various ethnographic topics such as tribal origins and identification, clans, mthology, religion, migrations, settlements, cultural change and contacts, missions, the fur trade, and warfare. The second part of this work, written by Edward D. Neill, examines the history of the Ojibwa and their connections with fur traders from the standpoint of official and other records. In some cases this section displays some discrepancies between the traditional and documentary history, particularly in regard to the recording of certain historical events.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Settlement patterns
- External trade
- Community heads
- External relations
- Public welfare
- Instigation of war
- Warfare
- Peacemaking
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary 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
- ca. 1850s
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- seventeenth century to ca. 1850s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Central Ojibwa: Lake Superior and upper Mississippi regions, United States; Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- William W. Warren
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ojibwa Indians