Book
The Northern Ojibwa and the fur trade: an historical and ecological study
Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada • Toronto • Published In 1974 • Pages: xx, 379
By: Bishop, Charles A..
Abstract
Since first contact with Europeans some 350 years ago, the social and economic life of the Ojibwa Indians has been greatly transformed. This study, which focuses in large part on the Osnaburgh House village, '…examines in detail the successive eras of change and adaptation among the Northern Ojibwa through the extensive and critical use of achival materials. These were meshed with observations in the field to produce an ethno-historical account of change which is unique to Subarctic research to date [i.e., the 1960s]. The study demonstrates that Northern Ojibwa social organization has switched from a clan-totem system at contact to a flexible one today [1960s]. Social and economic changes in Ojibwa culture can be directly related to the fur trade, population movements, and ecological shifts. The historical eras of change were defined by the data in accordance with new and different modes of adaptation under particular contact and ecological conditions' (pp. v-vi).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle; 1998
- Field Date
- 1965-1966, 1969
- Coverage Date
- seventeenth century - 1967
- Coverage Place
- Northern Ojibwa: northern Ontario and eastern Manitoba, Canada
- Notes
- Charles A. Bishop
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 352-370)
- LCCN
- 74005557
- LCSH
- Ojibwa Indians