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Summary Information
United States. Works Progress Administration: Chippewa Indian Historical Project Records 1936-1942
- United States. Works Progress Administration
Northland Micro 5; Micro 532
2 reels of microfilm (35mm)
Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center / Ashland Area Research Ctr. (Map)Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Records of a WPA project to collect Chippewa Indian folklore sponsored by the Great Lakes Indian Agency and directed by Sister M. Macaria Murphy of St. Mary's Indian School, Odanah, Wisconsin. Included are narrative and statistical reports, interview outlines, and operational records; and essays concerning Chippewa religious beliefs and rituals, food, liquor, transportation, trade, clothing, games and dances, and history. Also includes copies of materials from the John A. Bardon collection concerning the Superior, Wisconsin region, La Pointe baptismal records, the family tree of Qui-ka-ba-no-kwe, and artwork of Peter Whitebird. English
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-micr0532
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