Ojibwe Ethnogenesis 1640-1740

<p>In <em>Ojibwe Ethnogenesis 1640-1740</em> Theresa M. Schenck (Ojibwe Huron and Blackfeet) presents the first scholarly work to untangle the origin rise and spread of Ojibwe identity and culture from the mid-seventeenth to mid-eighteenth centuries as well as the emergence of Ojibwe identity in the early years of French imperial incursions into the Upper Midwest. Schenck traces the names ascribed to the Ojibwe by French officials traders missionaries and settlers in the earliest European records to their presences in French America. Schenck then follows the people themselves and their complex relationships through the centuries.</p><p>Schenck's proficiency in French and her close reading of the sources many in French have facilitated a more accurate traceable and comprehensive documentary study than achieved by previous generations of scholars. <em>Ojibwe Ethnogenesis 1640-1740</em> has thus achieved our fullest understanding to date of Ojibwe roots and culture going back four hundred years. </p><p></p><p><strong>Theresa M. Schenck</strong> (Ojibwe Huron and Blackfeet) is professor emerita of life sciences communications and American Indian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the editor of William W. Warren's <em>History of the Ojibway People</em> and the author of <em>William W. Warren: The Life Letters and Times of an Ojibwe Leader</em> (Nebraska 2009) and <em>All Our Relations: Chippewa Mixed Bloods and the Treaty of 1837</em>.</p><p></p>