Wild Rice and the Ojibway People

by Thomas Vennum and Jr. Vennum, Thomas

Book Overview

Explores in detail the technology of harvesting and processing the grain, the important place of wild rice in Ojibway ceremony and legend, including the rich social life of the traditional rice camps, and the volatile issues of treaty rights.

Wild rice has always been essential to life in the Upper Midwest and neighboring Canada. In this far-reaching book, Thomas Vennum Jr. uses travelers' narratives, historical and ethnological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087351226X
• ISBN13: 9780873512268
• Release Date: July 1988
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"