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Wild 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 seventeenth-century reports though modern mechanization. He explains the important place of wild rice in Ojibway ceremony and legend and depicts the rich social life of the traditional rice camps. And he reviews the volatile issues of treaty rights and litigations involving Indian problems in maintaining this traditional resource. A staple of the Ojibway diet and economy for centuries, wild rice has now become a gourmet food. With twentieth-century agricultural technology and paddy cultivation, white growers have virtually removed this important source of income from Indain hands. Nevertheless, the Ojibway continue to harvest and process rice each year. It remains a vital part of their social, cultural, and religious life.… (más)
An examination of wild rice in Ojibway culture, describing the technology of harvesting and processing the grain from seventeenth-century reports through modern mechanization.
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The wild oat, whose name they bear because it is found in their country, is a sort of grass, which grows naturally in the small Rivers with muddy bottoms, and in Swampy Places. It greatly resembles the wild oats that Grow amid our wheat. The ears grow upon hollow stems, jointed at Intervals; they emerge from the Water about the month of June, and continue growing until they rise About two feet above it. The grain is not larger than That of our oats, but it is twice as long, and The meal therefrom is much more abundant. The Savages Gather and prepare it for food...In The month of September. --Father Jacques Marquette, May 7, 1673
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Wild rice, technically not a rice and since the era of paddy production mostly not wild, is the only cereal native to North America with will-documented food uses.
(Introduction): The Ojibway (Ojibwa, Ojibwe, Chippewa) Indians, now living mostly on reservations in the upper midwestern United States and central Canada, face a social and economic dilemna.
(Preface): In 1964 on Lake Totogatic northwest of Seeley, Wisconsin, I first harvested wild rice with Fred Morgan, a Minneapolis photographer who had moved to Hayward, Wisconsin, and begun to document the culture of nearby Lac Court Oreilles Reservation.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
What will take its place when this last tradition is gone?
Wild 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 seventeenth-century reports though modern mechanization. He explains the important place of wild rice in Ojibway ceremony and legend and depicts the rich social life of the traditional rice camps. And he reviews the volatile issues of treaty rights and litigations involving Indian problems in maintaining this traditional resource. A staple of the Ojibway diet and economy for centuries, wild rice has now become a gourmet food. With twentieth-century agricultural technology and paddy cultivation, white growers have virtually removed this important source of income from Indain hands. Nevertheless, the Ojibway continue to harvest and process rice each year. It remains a vital part of their social, cultural, and religious life.
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