Ojibway Chiefs - Softcover

Diedrich, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0961690186 ISBN 13: 9780961690182

Publisher: Coyote Books, 1999

Synopsis

This volume consists of a collection of biographical sketches of some thirty leading, most nineteenth century, chiefs among the Ojibway, or Chippewa, people, particularly those who lived south of Lake Superior between Sault Ste. Marie and Red Lake, the so-called "Southwestern Chippewa." After a lengthy discussion of Ojibway chieftainship, the book covers such chiefs as Broken Tooth, Hole-in-the-Day, Great Buffalo, White Cloud, Shabashkung, etc..

About this title

About the Author

Mark Diedrich was born in Chicago in 1951. He began writing and publishing in the 1980s, specializing in books about American Indian leaders, oratory, and tribes, of the Upper Midwestern United States, particularly the Dakota-Lakota, Ojibway or Chippewa, and the Ho-Chunk or Winnebago. He contributed eight biographical sketches of Dakota leaders to the recently published, American National Biography, published by Oxford University Press. He currently lives in Rochester, Minnesota with his wife Ann and several children.

Edition details

• Publisher: Coyote Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0961690186
• ISBN 13: 9780961690182
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 189