Fur Trade Nation: An Ojibwe's Graphic History

Fur Trade Nation: An Ojibwe's Graphic HistoryThis book explores the fur trade from an Ojibwe perspective, offering insights into Ojibwe life, kinship and clan systems, technologies, and puts Ojibwe women back at the heart of this remarkable era. The fur trade was the first global trading system and the Ojibwe people were key players in a historical period that has shaped the geography, social structures, and history of Minnesota, and the nation. More than 800 pen and ink drawings, connecting

With engaging anecdotes

What God Is Honored Here

Her revisions of and replies to poems by William Carlos Williams

Keeler begins this analysis with the Homestead Act of 1862

student interviews

and Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties (1974)

Mary Lethert Wingerd unlocks the complex origins of the state—origins that have often been ignored in favor of legend and a far more benign narrative of immigration

and the wisdom of female elders

guided by her ancestors

and its influence on the Indian revitalization movement of the late twentieth century

military officers

key historical events