{"product_id":"the-menomini-indians-of-wisconsin-a-study-of-three-centuries-of-cultural-contact-and-change-9780299109745","title":"The Menomini Indians of Wisconsin: A Study of Three Centuries of Cultural Contact and Change","description":"\u003cp\u003eArchaeologists identify the Menomini as descendants of the Middle Woodland Indians  who flourished in the area for thousands of years before the first Europeans arrived. According to Menomini legend  their people emerged from the ground near the mouth of the Menominee River. It was along that river that Sieur Jean Nicolet first encountered the Menomini in 1634. The Menomini  a peaceful people  lived by farming  hunting  fishing  and gathering wild rice. Perhaps because of their peaceful nature their name was not generally found in the white military annals  and they were largely unknown until 1892  when Walter James Hoffman published a detailed ethnographic account of them. Felix Keesings classic 1939 work on the Menomini is one of the most detailed  authoritative  and useful accounts of their history and culture. It superseded Hoffmans earlier work because of Keesings modern methods of research. This work was among the first monographs on an American Indian people to employ a model of acculturation  and it is also an excellent early example of what is now called ethnohistory. It served as a model of anthropological research for decades after its publication. Keesings work  reprinted in this new Wisconsin edition  will continue to serve as a comprehensive introduction for the general reader  a book respected by both anthropologists and historians  and by the Menomini themselves. It is still the most important study of Menomini life up until 1939.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45657456214069,"sku":"ByrdShop_0299109747","price":23.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780299109745.jpg?v=1782040797","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-menomini-indians-of-wisconsin-a-study-of-three-centuries-of-cultural-contact-and-change-9780299109745","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}