Red World and White

Memories of a Chippewa Boyhood

By: John Rogers, Melissa L. Meyer (Foreword by)

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Paperback | 15 September 1996

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176 Pages

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19.68 x 13.34 x 1.91

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In reminiscing about his early years on Minnesota's White Earth Reservation at the turn of the century, John Rogers reveals much about the life and customs of the Chippewas. He tells of food-gathering, fashioning bark canoes and wigwams, curing deerskin, playing games, and participating in sacred rituals. These customs were to be cast aside, however, when he was taken to a white school in an effort to assimilate him into white society. In the foreword to this new edition, Melissa L. Meyer places Rogers's memoirs within the story of the White Earth Reservation.

"The writer is possessed of two identities -- Way Quah Gishig and John Rogers, Chippewa and white respectively. It is this quality, imposed by a dominant and dominating white society, that lends both significance and poignance to such rememberings.... For anyone interested in Indian life or in a very human account of what it is like to be pulled and pushed by competing values over which one has little control, this book is recommended". -- Journal of the West.

"Rich in ethnographic detail. ... It is a case study of what cultural conflict does to a single boy.... Red World and White should prove useful in the classroom". -Chronicles of Oklahoma.

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