In reminiscing about his early years on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation at the turn of the century, John Rogers reveals much about the life and customs of the Chippewas. He tells of food-gathering, fashioning bark canoes and wigwams, curing deerskin, playing games, and participating in sacred rituals. These customs were to be cast aside, however, when he was taken to a white school in an effort to assimilate him into white society. In the foreword to this new edition, Melissa L. Meyer places Roger’s memoirs within the story of the White Earth Reservation.
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John Rogers (Chief Snow Cloud), who was born on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, wrote the story of his boyhood to preserve for coming generations a record of the Chippewa way of life.
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I, WAY QUAH GISHIG, was six years old when my two sisters, Bishiu and Min di, accompanied me to Flandreau, South Dakota to attend an Indian boarding school. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sky trail, sleep spirit, snake root, sugar bush, seasonal round, white earth Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Uncle Snow Cloud, Raven Feather, Cass Lake, Watching Eye, Pan Guk, Leach Lake, Little Boy Lake, Rice Lake, Hell Diver New!
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I, WAY QUAH GISHIG, was six years old when my two sisters, Bishiu and Min di, accompanied me to Flandreau, South Dakota to attend an Indian boarding school. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sky trail, sleep spirit, snake root, sugar bush, seasonal round, white earth Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Uncle Snow Cloud, Raven Feather, Cass Lake, Watching Eye, Pan Guk, Leach Lake, Little Boy Lake, Rice Lake, Hell Diver New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Shadows of the Indian: Stereotypes in American Culture by Raymond William Stedman on page 176, page 177, and Back Matter
- American Indian Quotations by Howard J. Langer on page 128
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