Word: ojibway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pete was the first and only legitimate child of his mother Mabel, an Ojibway Indian girl of northern Michigan. Later he had a sister and two brothers. When Mabel's husband deserted her, she was glad that she would no longer be beaten, then wondered how she would support her baby. For a while she managed, by weaving baskets and selling them to summer tourists. Then she cooked for a logging camp. Then she took men. Joe Pete grew, watched what was going on loved his mother, took care of the other children, said nothing. When the Lithuanian Jaakkola...
Miss Alice Longfellow (daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow): " My two sisters (Mrs. Thorpe and Mrs. Dana) and I have been invited by the Ojibway Indians at Saute Sainte Marie to attend their presentation of Hiawatha on August...