Full Description
In Ojibwe Ethnogenesis, 1640-1740 Theresa M. Schenck (Ojibwe, Huron, and Blackfeet) presents the first scholarly work to untangle the origin, rise, and spread of Ojibwe identity and culture from the mid-seventeenth to mid-eighteenth centuries, as well as the emergence of Ojibwe identity in the early years of French imperial incursions into the Upper Midwest. Schenck traces the names ascribed to the Ojibwe by French officials, traders, missionaries, and settlers in the earliest European records to their presences in French America. Schenck then follows the people themselves and their complex relationships through the centuries.
Schenck's proficiency in French and her close reading of the sources, many in French, have facilitated a more accurate, traceable, and comprehensive documentary study than achieved by previous generations of scholars. Ojibwe Ethnogenesis, 1640-1740 has thus achieved our fullest understanding to date of Ojibwe roots and culture going back four hundred years.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Traditions of Origin
Chapter 2: Meet the Algonquins
Chapter 3: The Flight of the Outaouas and the Hurons
Chapter 4: The Bay of the Saint Esprit
Chapter 5: The French Claim Possession
Chapter 6: The Western Sauteurs
Chapter 7: The Great Peace of Montreal
Chapter 8: No Peace in La Baie des Puans
Chapter 9: The Post of the North
Chapter 10: E pluribus Unum
Afterword
Appendices
Tribal Names in 17th-18th centuries
The Algonquian Totem (My paper from Algonquian Conference Papers)
Ojibwe Leadership (chapter from Voice of the Crane)
