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Rainy River Lives

Rainy River Lives

Paperback

Native American HistoryMythology & FolkloreFiction Anthologies

Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 0803220626
ISBN13: 9780803220621
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: May 1 2009
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Rainy River Lives is the long-lost collection of stories of Ojibwe men and women as told by a hitherto unpublished, traditional Ojibwe storyteller, Maggie Wilson (1879-1940). Wilson lived on the Manitou Rapids Reserve on the Rainy River, which flows along the Ontario-Minnesota border. When anthropologist Ruth Landes arrived at Rainy River to conduct her doctoral research in 1932, Wilson often worked with the young scholar, telling her many stories. Their relationship continued after Landes returned to Columbia University. During the following decades, however, the letters and stories Wilson had sent Landes, which Landes had carefully collected, were lost. Only recently were they discovered in the basement of the Smithsonian Institution, where they had been misfiled with papers of another anthropologist.

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