The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the by George Copway,Shelley Hulan

By George Copway,Shelley Hulan

The conventional historical past and attribute Sketches of the Ojibway Nation (1850) used to be one of many first books of Indigenous heritage written by means of an Indigenous writer. The publication blends nature writing and narrative to explain the language, non secular ideals, tales, land, paintings, and play of the Ojibway humans. Shelley Hulan's afterword considers Copway's rhetorical recommendations in framing a narrative—she considers it a kind of "history, interrupted"—for a non-Indigenous readership.

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