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Rainy River Lives - Stories Told by Maggie Wilson (Paperback)
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Rainy River Lives - Stories Told by Maggie Wilson (Paperback)
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"Rainy River Lives" is the long-lost collection of stories of
Ojibwe men and women as told by a hitherto unpublished, traditional
Ojibwe storyteller, Maggie Wilson (1879-1940). Wilson lived on the
Manitou Rapids Reserve on the Rainy River, which flows along the
Ontario-Minnesota border. When anthropologist Ruth Landes arrived
at Rainy River to conduct her doctoral research in 1932, Wilson
often worked with the young scholar, telling her many stories.
Their relationship continued after Landes returned to Columbia
University. During the following decades, however, the letters and
stories Wilson had sent Landes, which Landes had carefully
collected, were lost. Only recently were they discovered in the
basement of the Smithsonian Institution, where they had been
misfiled with papers of another anthropologist.
This rich set of narratives takes us inside the intimate world of
Ojibwe families at the turn of the twentieth century, a time of
great upheaval when the Ojibwes were being relocated onto reserves
and required by the government to abandon their seasonal migrations
and subsistence activities. These remarkably detailed stories of
ordinary Native people, precisely through their everyday character,
reveal much about Ojibwe cultural beliefs and paint a nuanced
ethnographic portrait of Ojibwe life. In the distinctive voice of
an exceptional and highly creative individual, the stories address
both the culturally specific world of the Ojibwes and universal
human themes of love, loss, and perseverance.
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