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Native rice, native hands: the Ikwe Marketing Collective
Cultural survival quarterly • 11 (1) • Published In 1987 • Pages: 63-64
By: LaDuke, Winona.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a very brief article about Anishinabeg (Mississippi Chippewa) attempt to profit from a growing market in wild rice. Beginning in 1968, the local rice industry was earning 11 million dollars for its 60 white farmers, who lived on private land in the reserve. The native harvesters were paid only 65 cents a pound for wild rice that retailed at 5-10 dollars per pound. In 1985, the Ikwe Marketing Collective was formed to get a better price for rice and crafts. The collective buys the rice from the native harvesters and sells it directly to retailers for 4.50 to 5.50 dollars per pound. The author stresses the need for local natives to maintain a subsistence base and sell their surplus at a fair market price.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Collecting
- Price and value
- Cooperative organization
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 1968-1986
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Twentieth Century Ojibwa, White Earth reservation, Minnesota, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Winona LaDuke
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 8964755
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ojibwa Indians