Foreword by Billy Mills
Ojibwe history and traditions come alive in the new release from GLIFWC Press, Ojibwe Journeys: Treaties, Sandy Lake and the Waabanong Run. The book explores key events in the Ojibwe treaty-making period of the early 1800s and traces the ensuing journey to protect reserved rights from formidable governments and anti-Indian groups.
Over a 150 year period the Ojibwe utilized a fusion of running traditions, cultural directives and legal skills to maintain their lifeway in the greater Lake Superior region. Extensively researched and documented, the book provides a rare and intimate look into Ojibwe culture and how the tribes approached the court hearings of the 1990s.
Olympic running champion and Oglala Sioux Billy Mills authored the book's foreword. Mills, a Gold Medal winner in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic games, places the spiritual and legal journey of the Ojibwe people into relief with his own experiences.
Written by Charlie Otto Rasmussen, Ojibwe Journeys contains color maps and pictures, footnotes, a bibliography, plus the runners' journal from the 1998 Waabanong Run that brought the Treaty Staff from Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin to Washington, DC entirely on foot.
Books are $16.00, which includes postage. Retail and educational discounts are available.
"Rasmussen brings a warm humanity to his writing and has a gift for blending his extensive research with the words of the Ojibwe themselves." John Little Bird Anderson Professor of American Indian Studies Emeritus St. Scholastica & Mount Scenario Colleges |
