Wild Rice and the Ojibway People literary criticism and researching Native life past

and researching Native life past and present for his nonfiction and novels

at the age of 8

the authors take the reader back as far as 14

Upon its publication in 1833

environmental justice is of heightened importance to Indigenous communities

Wild Rice and the Ojibway People literary criticism and researching Native life pastWild rice has always been essential to life in the Upper Midwest and neighboring Canada. In this far reaching book, Thomas Vennum, Jr., uses travelers' narratives, historical and ethnological accounts, scientific data, historical and contemporary photographs and sketches, his own field work, and the words of Indian people to examine the importance of this wild food to the Ojibway people. He details the technology of harvesting and processing, from