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

Ethnohistory • 29 (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).

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