Kitchi-Gami: Wanderings Round Lake Superior

by Johann Georg Kohl

Book Overview

Covers the Ojibwa fur trade, canoe building, quillwork, native foods, hunting, fishing, and more. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1015612954
• ISBN13: 9781015612952
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Legare Street Press
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The way of the Ojibway

If you want to know how the ojibway indians lived in the early 17th century (200 years after meeting the first europeans) this is the book to read. It is written in a very analytical way and it becomes very obvious that the Kohl falls in love with these people. He explains how they make their canoes and wigwams. How they prepare their food. How and why they preform traditional fesitvals/initiations. He also gives a number of accounts on the stories of nanabojou, the main character in ojibway myth.At the end of the book he remarks that the most interesting thing about these people is the stories of nanabojou. Not so much the actual stories, but the fact that he is their main mythological character and not worshipped like herakles or shiva or thor or gilgamesh were.