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

Ethnohistory29 (2)Published In 1982 • Pages: 75-102

By: Greenberg, Adolph M., Morrison, James.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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).
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Identification
Reviews and critiques
Internal migration
Historical reconstruction
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
article
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
seventeenth - eighteenth centuries
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Northern Ojibwa: northern Ontario and eastern Manitoba, Canada
NotesAdditional notes
Adolph M. Greenberg ; James Morrison
Includes bibliographical references (p. 98-101)
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
57043343
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Ojibwa Indians