Minong - The Good Place: Ojibwe and Isle Royale - Brossura

Cochrane, Timothy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0870138499 ISBN 13: 9780870138492

Casa editrice: Michigan State Univ Pr, 2009

Riassunto

Minong (the Ojibwe name for Isle Royale) is the search for the history of the Ojibwe people's relationship with this unique island in the midst of Lake Superior. Cochrane uses a variety of sources: Ojibwe oral narratives, recently rediscovered Jesuit records and diaries, reports of the Hudson's Bay post at Fort William, newspaper accounts, and numerous records from archives in the United States and Canada, to understand this relationship to a place. What emerges is a richly detailed account of Ojibwe activities on Minong?and their slow waning in the latter third of the nineteenth century.
Piece by piece, Cochrane has assembled a narrative of a people, an island, and a way of life that transcends borders, governments, documentation, and tidy categories. His account reveals an authentic 'history': the missing details, contradictions, deviations from the conventions of historical narrative?the living entity at the intersection of documentation by those long dead and the narratives of those still living in the area. Significantly, it also documents how non-natives symbolically and legally appropriated Isle Royale by presenting it to fellow non-natives as an island that was uninhabited and unused.

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• Editore: Michigan State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0870138499
• ISBN 13: 9780870138492
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 285