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Book

The Tree that never dies : oral history of the Michigan Indians

Call Numbers

  • H 977.400497 T7862 (CEN)
  • 977.400497 T7862 (OSH)

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Publication Information

Grand Rapids, Mich. : Grand Rapids Public Library, c1978.

Physical Description

169 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes

All materials used in compiling this book were taken from taped interviews with Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi Indians of Michigan.

Includes index.

Contents

  • Lifeways--Crafts: Black ash baskets
  • Quill boxes
  • Canoes
  • Early lifeways: Hunting
  • Trapping
  • Fishing
  • Indian diet: Food preservation
  • Food preparation, sample recipes
  • Changing lifeways: Occupations
  • Housing
  • Lumbering
  • Farming
  • Education: Parochial schools
  • Public schools
  • Government schools
  • Higher Education: Footnotes for education
  • Beliefs and stories: Medicine
  • Medicine lodge
  • Herbal Medicines
  • Sweat lodge
  • Bearwalk
  • Feasts
  • Wakes
  • Cemeteries
  • Two chiefs: Cobmoosa
  • Pawbame
  • Storytelling (Cont.)
  • Contents continued: History: Summary
  • Contemporary views
  • Hunting and fishing rights
  • Indian-White relations
  • Social services
  • Pow-wows
  • Appendix I: Indian fry bread recipe
  • Suggested readings
  • Index.

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