Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community

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Child, Brenda J., 1959-

Holding our world together : Ojibwe women and the survival of community / Brenda J. Child.

p. cm. — (Penguin library of American Indian history)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN: 9781101560259

1. Ojibwa women—History. 2. Ojibwa women—Social conditions. 3. Ojibwa women—
Economic conditions. I. Title. E99.C6C48 2011 977.004’97333—dc23 2011036175

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