Holding Our World Together
Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community

Very interesting book. I am so thoroughly disgusted with the treatment of the Indians. We stole everything they had. Well, with the advent of the casinos they are getting their revenge - taking the white man's money - lol! Seriously tho, the Indians were extremely industrious and lived very well wit......more

Read this book for class.......more

Note: Advance Reader Copy provided by Netgalley. Holding Our Worlds Together is less of a microhistory than I was expecting. Although there is a tight focus on the history of the Ojibwe tribe, Child also covers a large period of time in relatively few pages. This might have made it impossible to unde......more

I got an early copy of this book - and have personal interest in it as I have Ojibwe background...but have rather mixed feelings about the book. There is a lot of good and interesting information in the book, but it is not lain out very well, and the theme of Ojibwe women holding everything together......more

Brenda Child is a professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. Previously, I had read her book on Native American Boarding Schools, BOARDING SCHOOL SEASONS, and found it quite enlightening. This short book takes a look at the role of Ojibwe women took from before the French c......more