La Pointe: Village Outpost on Madeline Island

La Pointe: Village Outpost on Madeline IslandLa Pointe, once an Ojibwe village, destination for French voyageurs, and center of the Great Lakes fur trade, is now the gateway to Apostle Islands National Lakeshore just off the Wisconsin shore of Lake Superior. First published in 1960 and long out of print, this classic account of three centuries of the history of La Pointe and Madeline Island is now available again, supplemented with a chronology of events, a glossary of Ojibwe names, a foreword

in the words of the Dakota people who lived it

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and naturopathy and an engaging read for anyone interested in ethnobotany and natural healing

The volume is organized into three sections: the first includes essays that interrogate the embedded nature of Indigenous studies within academic institutions

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as agribusiness increasingly limits the food on our table

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