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Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth
Boisvert Lee
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Description for Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth
Paperback. Shares the life accounts of the growing-up years of a woman from Michigan of mixed blood, both Indian and white. These stories shed light on the living conditions of Native Americans in Michigan in the early 1900s. The stories are gathered from journals, papers for college, transcribed materials, and oral chronicles collected over decades. Editor(s): Lee, Boisvert. Num Pages: 168 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNG; BGA; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth shares the life accounts, told in her own words, of the growing-up years of a woman from Michigan of mixed blood - both Indian and white. These warm and graceful stories begin with the author's earliest childhood, and they shed a rare light on the living conditions of Native Americans in Michigan in the early 1900s. They recount Keewaydinoquay's education in the public schools, illuminate the role Christianity played in traditional Native American culture, and reveal the importance of maintaining Native American customs. Keewaydinoquay was one of the very few Native American women who learned ... Read more
Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth shares the life accounts, told in her own words, of the growing-up years of a woman from Michigan of mixed blood - both Indian and white. These warm and graceful stories begin with the author's earliest childhood, and they shed a rare light on the living conditions of Native Americans in Michigan in the early 1900s. They recount Keewaydinoquay's education in the public schools, illuminate the role Christianity played in traditional Native American culture, and reveal the importance of maintaining Native American customs. Keewaydinoquay was one of the very few Native American women who learned ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN REGIONAL
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780472069200
SKU
V9780472069200
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Ref
99-80
About Boisvert Lee
Keewaydinoquay was Lecturer of Ethnobotany and Philosophy of the Western Great Lakes Indians at the University of Wisconsin. She is the author of several books, include Blue Berry: First Fruit of the Anishinaabeg. She died in 1999.
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