archaeological evidence

A letter to the reader from Julie Flett

transporting readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota

and of a woman's relentless errors

Making Relatives of Them: Native Kinship, Politics, and Gender in the Great Lakes Country, 1790-1850 Oji-Cree archaeological evidenceKinship, as an organizing principle, gives structure to communities and cultures and it can vary as widely as the social relationships organized in its name. Making Relatives of Them examines kinship among the Great Lakes Native nations in the eventful years of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, revealing how these Indigenous peoples' understanding of kinship, in complex relationship with concepts of gender, defined their social,