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.
Abstract
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is a history of the Ojibwa people from the seventeenth century to approximately the 1850s, based on oral traditions and historical documents.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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Historian
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1998
- Field Date
- ca. 1850s
- Coverage Date
- seventeenth century to ca. 1850s
- Coverage Place
- Central Ojibwa: Lake Superior and upper Mississippi regions, United States; Canada
- Notes
- William W. Warren
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- LCSH
- Ojibwa Indians