Introduction: Writing Reservation Histories -- A Family at Work -- 1. Marriage and Work on the Reservation: Fred Auginash or Nahwahjewun of Big Sandy Lake -- 2. The Welfare of the Family: Practicing Religion on the Reservation -- Families at Work -- 3. An Ojibwe Fishery Story: Ojibwe Labor During World War I -- 4. Jingle Dress Dancers in the Modern World: The Influenza of 1918-19 -- 5. My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks: Labor, Gender, and the Great Depression -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Photo Credits
Summary:
"Child uses her grandparents' story as a gateway into discussion of various kinds of labor and survival in Great Lakes Ojibwe communities, from traditional ricing to opportunistic bootlegging, from healing dances to sustainable fishing. The result is a portrait of daily work and family life on reservations in the first half of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
