Fires Essay, Research Paper
Book Review of People of the Three Fires
The book, People of the Three Fires, is written by three different people each depicting a folk in detail.The book is really good written and comparatively easy to understand. It is enlightening and was written to be used as a instruction tool for schools. The book discusses the relationship between the groups that lived in Michigan and environing countries.
James M. McClurken writes the first subdivision, which deals with the Ottawa people. McClurken tells about the Ottawa peoples & # 8217 ; relationship with the environment they lived in and how they adapted to alter when contacted by Europeans. One thing I found interesting about the Ottawa is their beliefs. The Ottawa believed in regard for the person. Their leaders represented the people much like our elected functionaries represent us when a determination is needed for the whole of the state. They are in melody with nature and see the Earth and animate beings portion of their household, turn toing them with & # 8220 ; father, & # 8221 ; & # 8220 ; mother, & # 8221 ; & # 8220 ; brother, & # 8221 ; & # 8220 ; sister. & # 8221 ; The Ottawa & # 8217 ; s besides amazed me at their ability to believe in the supernatural, the liquors that told what sickness a individual has and the mending power of the firewalkers is a spring of religion. I am ever amazed that people survived without Advil and Tums, and they didn & # 8217 ; T merely survived they thrived! The Ottawa were great bargainers, in fact they traded all over northern Michigan. A surprising fact I read in the subdivision was of the fleecing of the Indians out of their lands by the Mason County authorities. In the past twelvemonth nevertheless the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians have reclaimed land in Mason County. This worries me slightly because I think the house in which we live was portion of the land given to the Ottawa in the Treaty of 1855. While I feel bad that the Ottawa were cheated out of their land, I don & # 8217 ; t think I should hold to give up my house to compensate a 150 year-old wrong.
Dr. James A. Clifton wrote the Pottawatomi subdivision of Peoples of the Three Fires. Clifton discusses the same facets of Potawatomi life as McClurken for the Ottawa. An interesting group of people the Potawatomi held a certain advantage as they moved south from northern Michigan. Because they were neighbours of the Chippewa and Ottawa they had the cognition that tribes farther south did non hold. The Potawatomi knew how to construct birch bark canoes so trade was far easier for them than for the Sauk or Fox. They thrived on the & # 8220 ; Mexican Trinity & # 8221 ; of beans maize and squash. They were besides accomplished huntsmans and fishermen. In the beginning they were husbandmans but they shortly became interested in the herds of bu
ffalo that roamed the fields merely south of them. Then no repast was complete without some ruddy meat. A description that I took to bosom was that on page 50 explicating the equilibrating act preformed by the leaders of the groups and the Gallic. I can merely conceive of the emphasis that the Wkama went through seeking to delight everyone at one time. During the Gallic and Indian War the Potawatomi made a great gaining control of many English Equus caballuss. Trading their canoes for Equus caballuss the Potawatomi gave up their sailing civilization and finally forgot how to even construct canoes. With the greater mobility of the Equus caballus some of the western Potawatomi became nomads like the prairie Indians, but some remained in the settled life they had built. Though one time united the Potawatomi were now regionally and culturally divide. The Potawatomi as a people signed more pacts with the united provinces than any other folk. The Potawatomi have survived.
Dr. George L. Cornell wrote the Ojibway subdivision of the book. The subdivision starts out by depicting the first contact the Ojibway had with foreigners. The Norse were believed to hold landed on the North American continent around A.D. 1000 conveying with them diseases that made the native people move westward. After the move into the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the environing countries the Ojibway lived a good life. Food was abundant and the societal scene was busy. Dances and festivals to observe the Creation among other things helped to maintain the people happy and optimistic. A kid was raised by the whole small town and was non viewed as belongings of the parents, but as a gift to all. I think this is a really of import portion of their society assisting the kid to experience loved and cared for wherever they were. They were skilled therapists utilizing medicative workss and herbs around them to handle unwellnesss. The Ojibway besides received unjust intervention when the authorities was doing pacts with them. They were given land so it was taken from them, the authoritative narrative. The right to angle commercially was given to the Ojibway by the Fox determination in 1979, as justice Noel Fox looked to an 1836 pact with the Ojibway. The Ojibway are now utilizing the resources of the Great Lakes to better themselves, and their civilization.
The book overall was really enlightening, and while I enjoyed Mountain Wolf Woman more I learned more from Peoples of the Three Fires. I think the assigned books have been really helpful in my understanding the issues of different folks and groups of Native Americans.
Bibliography
Clifton, James A. , George L. Cornell, James M. McClurken. Peoples of the Three Fires. Grand Rapids MI: Grand Rapids Inter-Tribal Council. 1986
