Ojibwe Ethnogenesis, 1640–1740 - Hardcover

Schenck, Theresa M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1496241878 ISBN 13: 9781496241870

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 2025

Synopsis

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.
 

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About the Author

Theresa M. Schenck (Ojibwe, Huron, and Blackfeet) is professor emerita of life sciences communications and American Indian studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the editor of William W. Warren’s History of the Ojibway People and the author of William W. Warren: The Life, Letters and Times of an Ojibwe Leader (Nebraska, 2009) and All Our Relations: Chippewa Mixed Bloods and the Treaty of 1837.
 

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1496241878
• ISBN 13: 9781496241870
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 186