1 0
    £38.99 GBP
    £38.99 GBP
    Sale Sold out
    Free UK Shipping

    Freshly Printed - allow 7 days lead

    Ojibwe Ethnogenesis, 1640–1740

    Theresa M. Schenck (Author)

    9781496241870, University of Nebraska Press

    Hardback, published 1 June 2025

    186 pages, 3 illustrations, 7 maps, 1 table, index
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg

    “Theresa Schenck is an extraordinary scholar and writer and demonstrates in every paragraph a respect for the reader, a presentation of critical academic discourse, and at the same time a direct explanation of the subject. Ojibwe Ethnogenesis, 1640–1740 is a learned, original, and inclusive history of the Outchibouec, Ojibwe, Chippewa, and Sauteurs.”-Gerald Vizenor, author of Native Provenance: The Betrayal of Cultural Creativity
    “Theresa Schenck’s interest in early Ojibwe history is grounded in her ancestral ties to the people and a concern to achieve a fuller understanding of Ojibwe roots and culture. Tracing a deep past in records going back four hundred years, Ojibwe Ethnogenesis, 1640–1740 is unique in its content and attention to its subject. It fills an important niche in the literature.”-Jennifer S. H. Brown, editor of Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River: A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in Conversation

    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.
     

    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)
     
    View full details