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Bezig met laden... Minong: The Good Place-Ojibwe and Isle Royale (editie 2009)door Timothy Cochrane
Informatie over het werkMinong: The Good Place-Ojibwe and Isle Royale door Timothy Cochrane
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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 nine Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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My husband and I have visited all three places in recent years and had not picked up on the historical connections of the three places, even though Isle Royale is much closer to Grand Portage and Fort William than it is to the Keweenaw Peninsula (Michigan) to which it is politically associated.
The National Park Service (Isle Royale) has been slow to recognize that Native Americans were on the island for centuries prior to the copper mining and the fishing industries of 19th and 20 centuries.
While I found the book to be perhaps a little too detailed and slow in places, overall I was very impressed and appreciate that the author pulled his lifetime of experiences together to share his knowledge and observations with others. (