By John Rogers
ISBN-10: 0585155852
ISBN-13: 9780585155852
ISBN-10: 0806128917
ISBN-13: 9780806128917
In reminiscing approximately his early years on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation on the flip of the century, John Rogers finds a lot in regards to the lifestyles and customs of the Chippewas. He tells of food-gathering, fashioning bark canoes and wigwams, curing deerskin, taking part in video games, and taking part in sacred rituals. those customs have been to be forged apart, although, while he was once taken to a white institution for you to assimilate him into white society. within the foreword to this new version, Melissa L. Meyer areas Roger’s memoirs in the tale of the White Earth Reservation.
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Eventually, the "Soo Line," a branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad, linked towns along White Earth's western corridoreach of which enjoyed a grain elevatorwith Twin Cities markets. We do not know the band from which John Rogers and his family descended. That his father lived at Cass Lake, where he operated a logging camp, suggests a connection. Anishinaabe clan affiliation descended through the paternal line, though they accorded respect to bilateral relations. At one point, Rogers mentions a wealthy white couple from Cass Lake who knew both his mother and father, again implying a tie with the conservative Cass Lake band.
When Wa goosh first saw my sister Min di, it was plain that he liked her and it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Wa goosh (meaning ''fox") was tall and strong. He was the typical Chippewa brave. His shirt was tan and of buckskin, open at the throat and with Page 13 long sleeves and beautifully beaded cuffs. His trousers were dark and soft as the forest moss. Knotted about his throat he wore a colored silk handkerchief. But he wore no hat and no earrings. Usually there was just a band about his forehead and his hair hung in two braids.
Suddenly we heard a strange noise. It didn't sound like a deer or a large animal. I stopped paddling. Never had we heard anything like it, and Father turned his head quickly. Neither one of us spokejust listened, wondering what it was. "Finally Father motioned for me to pull closer to the shore. I obeyed, and as we advanced I saw that the object was a porcupineprobably just coming down to drink. Father and I looked at one another. We both knew that meeting a porcupine at night was not a good omen.
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