Book
Moose to moccasins: the story of Ka Kita Wa Pa No Kwe
Natural Heritage/Natural History • Toronto, Ont. • Published In 1992 • Pages:
By: Theriault, Madeline.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an autobiography of a Teme-Augama Anishnabai women, Ka Kita Wa Pa No Kwe, or 'Wise-day Woman,' alias Madeline Katt Theriault. Her personal experiences reflect the changes that transformed her culture in the 20th century. One of her early reminisces is meeting an old man who had lived in and roamed the countryside that is now Toronto. Her early life is one of trapping, hunting, and gathering. She knows how to tan deer and moose hides, make moccasins and deerskin clothes, smoke meat, render bear fat and store it in its intestines for use as cooking oil. Her story is one of personal loss: her husband died from tuberculosis at the age of 34, her daughter in a fire, her cabin was lost in a flood as a resultof a lumber company damming their lake, and her children were taken away and sent to residential school. She almost dies from tuberculosis herself, if not for a local doctor who intercedes on her behalf, gets her into a hospital, and later finds her work and a place to stay. She has a resilient spirit, which attests to the strength of her people who have survived for thousands of years.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Annual cycle
- Hunting and trapping
- Labor supply and employment
- 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.
- Indigenous Person
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Not Specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1908-1990
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northeastern Ontario, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Madeline Katt Theriault
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ojibwa Indians