History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan Blackbird Andrew J.
History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan Blackbird Andrew J. Andrew Jackson Blackbird (ca. He was author of the 1887 book, History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan. 1814 -…
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History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan Blackbird Andrew J.
Andrew Jackson Blackbird (ca. He was author of the 1887 book, History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan. 1814 - 1908) was an Ottawa tribe leader and historian.
Blackbird was an interpreter at the Protestant mission in L'Arbre Croche. His father was a tribal chief. Even though he was a Christian, he knew the traditional Ottawa religious beliefs well, since he had received an extensive tribal education.
Blackbird became a counselor between the United States government and the Ottawa and Ojibwa peoples. His marriage to a white woman facilitated this position. History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan was among the first authoritative accounts of the Ottawa and Chippewa peoples ever published.
The book covers historical facts, day-to-day details of how the Ottawa and Ojibwa hunted, fished and trapped before the coming of the whites, and Blackbird explains many of
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