Mille Lacs Ojibwe Social History Project: Interview with Julie Shingobe

Titles: Mille Lacs Ojibwe Social History Project: Interview with Julie Shingobe (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Born near the East Lake Wildlife Refuge area in 1930, at the time of teh interview Julie Shingobe lived in East Lake and worked as a chemical dependency counselor for the Mille Lacs band. Formerly a District II/East Lake Representative (1982-1986), Julie Shingobe belonged to the Grand Medicine Society/Midewiwin and regularly attended ceremonial dances. She was a college graduate and her son Mushkooub was the Commissioner of Education for the band. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Discusses several traditional seasonal activities at East Lake from the 1930s onward, such as ricing, fishing and maple sugaring; traditional practices involving drum societies, the Ojibwe language and medicinal plants; and inter-band government relations and relations with the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe (MCT).

Dates

• 08/05/1992 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Shingobe, Julie
• interviewer: Godfrey, Anthony

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 36
• Accession Number: AV1993.251.9

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Mille Lacs Ojibwe Social History Project' <OH 36>

Quantity: 58 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: text

Subjects

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