My Grandfathers Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation environment and the land are themes

and the land are themes that shape the existence of the Inuits of the Far North

showing how discrimination

and events that have helped shape America

Much of the focus on the Dakota people in Minnesota rests on the tragic events of the 1862 U

My Grandfathers Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation environment and the land are themesWhen Ojibwe historian Brenda Child uncovered the Bureau of Indian Affairs file on her grandparents, it was an eye opening experience. The correspondence, full of incendiary comments on their morals and character, demonstrated the breathtakingly intrusive power of federal agents in the early twentieth century. While telling her own familys stories from the Red Lake Reservation, as well as stories of Ojibwe people around the Great Lakes, Child examines