Dr. Jennifer Brown
WINNIPEG, MB – The University of Winnipeg’s Neil Besner, Vice-President, Research and International, invites you to the book launch of Jennifer Brown and Susan Gray’s new edition, Contributions to Ojibwe Studies: Essays, 1934-1972 by A. Irving Hallowell at Grant Park’s McNally Robinson bookstore on Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 7:00 pm. Everyone is welcome.
From 1930 to 1940, Hallowell made repeated summer fieldwork visits to Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, and to the Ojibwe communities along the Berens River under the guidance of the Treaty Chief William Berens. Contributions to Ojibwe Studies presents 28 of Hallowell’s writings focusing on the Ojibwe people of the area. Hallowell (1892-1974) was an American anthropologist who taught for most of his life at the University of Pennsylvania.
Jennifer S. H. Brown holds a Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Peoples and Histories and is a Professor of History at The University of Winnipeg. She has published widely on Northern Algonquian and fur trade history, and co-edited, with Susan Elaine Gray, Memories, Myths, and Dreams of an Ojibwe Leader by William Berens.
Susan Elaine Gray, an award-winning scholar of Northern Algonquian history and cultures, teaches Aboriginal history and is the research associate to the Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Peoples and Histories at The University of Winnipeg. She is the author of “I Will Fear No Evil: Ojibwa-Missionary Encounters Along the Berens River, 1875-1940.”
