Wild Rice and the Ojibway People literary criticism and researching Native life past

and researching Native life past and present for his nonfiction and novels

Upon its publication in 1833

Standing Bear sought to tell the white man "just how" they "lived as Lakotans

the self-styled leader of all the Ojibwe was stopped by at least twelve Ojibwe men and fatally shot

Wild Rice and the Ojibway People literary criticism and researching Native life pastWild 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 accounts, scientific data, historical and contemporary photographs and sketches, his own field work, and the words of Indian people to examine the importance of this wild food to the Ojibway people. He details the technology of harvesting and processing, from