Recommended readings (Part XI)

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"'Densmore . . . has compiled with great care a vast amount of information bearing upon the daily life of the Chippewa, and . . . has done a valuable piece of work for posterity by collecting this material."

- Minnesota History

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Frances Densmore "transformed the Chippewa customs from the habits of some strange and faraway tribe to the daily ways of real people with interesting personalities," writes Nina Marchetti Archabal in her introduction to the Borealis Books reprint of this classic work. Chippewa Customs, first published in 1929 by the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology, gives accurate, detailed descriptions of the tribal customs, history, legends, traditions, art, music, economy, and leisure activities of the Chippewa (Ojibway) Indians of the United States and Canada.
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~ Frances Densmore (1867-1957) was one of the first ethnologists to specialize in the study of American Indian music and culture.
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* "CHIPPEWA CUSTOMS" by Frances Densmore; © 1979 by the Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN: 0-87351-142-5.
Book cover: Ojibway woman and two girls with loaded canoe heading for blueberry camp, 1920 /Photography by Roland Reed/.