PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide

Chapter 3: Early Nineteenth Century: George Copway (Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh); Ojibwe; (1818-1869)

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Primary Works

The Life, History and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (George Copway), a Young Indian Chief of the Ojebwa Nation, 1847; Organization of a New Indian Territory, East of the Missouri River, 1850; Running Sketches of Men and Places, in England, France, Germany, Belgium, and Scotland, 1851; The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibwa Nation, 1851.

Selected Bibliography

Boatman, John. My Elders Taught Me: Aspects of Western Great Lakes American Indian Philosophy. Lanham: University Press of America, 1992.

Densmore, Frances. "Chippewa Customs." Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology, No. 86. Washington, D.C., 1929. Minneapolis: Ross and Haines, 1976.

Dunning, Robert W. Social and economic change among the northern Ojibwa. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1959. E78.O5 D8

Hickerson, Harold. The Chippewa and their neighbors: a study in ethnohistory. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. E99.C6 H44

Kobell, Dale T. "Know-Nothings and Indians: Strange Bedfellows? Western Historical Quarterly 15 (1984): 175-98.

Landes, Ruth. Ojibwa religion and the Midewiwin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968. E99 C6 L28 1968

The Northeast. Ed. Bruce G. Trigger. Vol. 15. Handbook of North American Indians. Ed. William C. Sturtevant. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian, 1978.

Ritzenthaler, Robert E. "Southeastern Ojibwa." In The Northeast, edited by Bruce G. Trigger. 743-59.

Robers, E. S. "Southwestern Chippewa." In The Northeast, edited by Bruce G. Trigger. 760-71.

Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown. "George Copway: Nineteenth-Century American Indian Autobiographer." Multi-cultural American Autobiography Issue. Ed. Robert J. Payne. Spec. Issue of Auto/Biography 3.2 (Sum 1987): 6-17.

Smith, Donald B. "The Life of George Copway or Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (1818-1869) - and a Review of his Writings." Journal of Canadian Studies 1988.

Tanner, Helen Hornbeck. The Ojibwas: A Critical Bibliography. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976. Z1210.C5 T36 Vecsey, Christopher. Traditional Ojibwa religion and its historical changes. Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 1983. E99 .C6 V43

Vizenor, Gerald (Ojibwa). The People Named the Chippewa. Narrative Histories. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.

Warren, William Whipple (Ojibwa). History of the Ojibways, Based on Traditions and Oral Statements. Collections of the Minnesota Historical Soc., 5 (1885). Rpt. Intro. by W. Roger Buffalohead. Minneapolis: Ross and Haines, 1957; Minneapolis: Minnesota Hist. Soc., 1984.

Wiget, Andrew. Dictionary of Native American literature. New York: Garland, 1994. PM155 .D53 1994

MLA Style Citation of this Web Page:

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