In reminiscing approximately his early years on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation on the flip of the century, John Rogers finds a lot concerning the existence and customs of the Chippewas. He tells of food-gathering, fashioning bark canoes and wigwams, curing deerskin, taking part in video games, and taking part in sacred rituals. those customs have been to be solid apart, although, whilst he used to be taken to a white university with a view to assimilate him into white society. within the foreword to this new version, Melissa L. Meyer locations Roger’s memoirs in the tale of the White Earth Reservation.
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