Williamson (1835-1917)

of memory and imagination

A Century of Dishonor

A fascinating study for students of Indigenous and linguistic disciplines

"—Stephen Graham Jones

My Grandfathers Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation spirituality Williamson (1835-1917)When Ojibwe historian Brenda Child uncovered the Bureau of Indian Affairs file on her grandparents, it was an eye opening experience. The correspondence, full of incendiary comments on their morals and character, demonstrated the breathtakingly intrusive power of federal agents in the early twentieth century. While telling her own familys stories from the Red Lake Reservation, as well as stories of Ojibwe people around the Great Lakes, Child examines