The Wild Rice Gatherers of the Upper Lakes : A Study in American Primitive Economics
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- ca. 1600-1898
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This century-old study remains the most thorough and comprehensive description of wild rice and its importance to Native American peoples. Working from 300 years of published sources and first-hand surveys from Indian informants, Jenks reports on the botany of the plant itself, the nature of the habitat where it grows, the Indian communities that use it, how it was maintained, harvested, cooked and eaten, and its influence on social conditions, Indian economies, and even on geographic names. Jenks quotes liberally from Indian informants as well as three centuries of travel narratives, and includes 16 photographs and maps
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Jenks, Albert Ernest, 1869-1953
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- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
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- U.S. Government Publications
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ; v. 17, pt. 2 - Publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Subjects
- French Americans
Native Americans
Wild Rice
Birds
Insects
Folklore
Cookery
Food
Rites and ceremonies
Lakes
Rivers
Wetlands
War
Dakota (Sioux)
Fox
Ho-Chunk
Huron
Kickapoo
Mascouten
Menominee
Ojibwe
Ottawa
Potawatomi
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- text
- Language
- English
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- Jenks, Albert Ernest, 1869-1953. The Wild Rice Gatherers of the Upper Lakes : A Study in American Primitive Economics. ca. 1600-1898. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/52432. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
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- Jenks, Albert Ernest, 1869-1953, (ca. 1600-1898) The Wild Rice Gatherers of the Upper Lakes : A Study in American Primitive Economics. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/52432
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- Jenks, Albert Ernest, 1869-1953. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/52432>.