By: Copway, G. (George), or, Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh, Chief of the Ojibway Nation.
Price: $12.50 USD
Publisher:
Toronto, Prospero: 2001
Edition: Facsimile Reprint.
Seller ID: 27233
ISBN: 1552671801
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
298 pp, 8vo (8 7/8" H). "Numerically the largest group of Native North Americans, the Ojibway were the first to have a history written by one of their own people. Published in 1850, its author, George Copway, or Kah-ge-g a-gah-bowh, had already achieved a certain amount of fame delivering passionate lectures in North America and Europe. Attired in traditional Ojibway dress, Copway held up the virtues of tribal life while promoting mid-nineteenth-century ideas on education. Arguing for a separate Native North American state, Copway garnered considerable support from both Natives and...
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