HUM 221: Awesome webpage on Ojibwe culture

It's put up on the Web by the Milwaukee Public Museum as part of a website on Wisconsin's Native American peoples.

It has sections on:

• Subsistence and Seasonality
• Settlement Pattern, Social Organization, and Kinship
• Leadership and Government
• Religious Life, Medicine, and Healing
• European Contact, the Fur Trade, and Resulting Changes
• The Nineteenth Century
• Change in the Twentieth Century

"For many, reservation life was and is a constant struggle to support families through interaction with American society and maintain aspects of traditional life," the MPM's survey concludes. "Despite considerable contact and intermarriage with Whites, many traditional practices survive in the strong use of the Ojibwe language as well as religious practices, oral tradition, knowledge of herbal medicines, traditional crafts, and continued reliance on maple sugaring and collecting wild rice. These resources are augmented with some lumbering, seasonal harvesting of off-reservation fruit crops, wage work, and acting as guides for White fishermen as well as wage work and increasing employment in tribal government and tribal enterprises."

Thanks to Christina for finding this website.