Grand Portage National Monument hosts speaker, author, and Professor Brenda Child on November 3
Nov 03, 2023 08:03AM ● By Editor
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From Grand Portage National Monument - October 31, 2023
On November 3, 2023, at 12:00 p.m. in the Heritage Center Classroom, Brenda J. Child (Red Lake Ojibwe) will discuss her research for a new book on the history of American Indian marriage, with an emphasis on a married couple who worked for the Grand Portage School and Agency, 1915-1919.
Brenda J. Child (Red Lake Ojibwe) is Northrop Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. In 2021, she was the University of Minnesota’s recipient of the President’s Community Engaged Scholar Award. She was recently named a Guggenheim Fellow.
Child is the author of several award-winning books including Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 (Nebraska, 1998); Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community (Penguin, 2012); and My Grandfather’s Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation (MHS Press, 2014). The latter won the American Indian Book Award. Her new book project is The Marriage Blanket: Love, Violence, and the Law in Indian Country. She has a popular documentary, Jingle Dress Dancers in the Modern World: Ojibwe People and Pandemics (2020). She also authored a bilingual book for children, Bowwow Powwow. It won a major prize, the American Indian Youth Literature Medal.
Child was born on the Red Lake Ojibwe Reservation in northern Minnesota and is part of a committee developing a new constitution for the 15,000- member nation.
Professor Child will also be speaking about her film "The Jingle Dress" at the Grand Marais Art Colony that same evening. Learn more here: https://www.boreal.org/events/274124/film-jingle-dress-dancers-in-the-modern-world-ojibwe-people-and...
From Grand Portage National Monument - October 31, 2023
On November 3, 2023, at 12:00 p.m. in the Heritage Center Classroom, Brenda J. Child (Red Lake Ojibwe) will discuss her research for a new book on the history of American Indian marriage, with an emphasis on a married couple who worked for the Grand Portage School and Agency, 1915-1919.
Brenda J. Child (Red Lake Ojibwe) is Northrop Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. In 2021, she was the University of Minnesota’s recipient of the President’s Community Engaged Scholar Award. She was recently named a Guggenheim Fellow.
Child is the author of several award-winning books including Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 (Nebraska, 1998); Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community (Penguin, 2012); and My Grandfather’s Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation (MHS Press, 2014). The latter won the American Indian Book Award. Her new book project is The Marriage Blanket: Love, Violence, and the Law in Indian Country. She has a popular documentary, Jingle Dress Dancers in the Modern World: Ojibwe People and Pandemics (2020). She also authored a bilingual book for children, Bowwow Powwow. It won a major prize, the American Indian Youth Literature Medal.
Child was born on the Red Lake Ojibwe Reservation in northern Minnesota and is part of a committee developing a new constitution for the 15,000- member nation.
Professor Child will also be speaking about her film "The Jingle Dress" at the Grand Marais Art Colony that same evening. Learn more here: https://www.boreal.org/events/274124/film-jingle-dress-dancers-in-the-modern-world-ojibwe-people-and...
