Labor and Leisure in the “Enchanted Summer Land”
Using industrial survey reports, this chapter shows how the entrepreneurial adaptation of Anishinaabe women at Lac Courte Oreilles and Lac du Flambeau in Wisconsin between 1900 and 1940, are vital to the economic transformation from a dependency on extractive logging resource industry to service-bas...
| Published in: | Ethnohistory |
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| Format: | Book |
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University of Illinois Press
2017
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037153.003.0009 |
| Summary: | Using industrial survey reports, this chapter shows how the entrepreneurial adaptation of Anishinaabe women at Lac Courte Oreilles and Lac du Flambeau in Wisconsin between 1900 and 1940, are vital to the economic transformation from a dependency on extractive logging resource industry to service-based tourism. Women's work within tourism, provisioning a diverse range of services and activities, usefully erodes formerly paternalistic or narrow conceptions of work and workplace. Tourism brought small freedoms by offering a new source of revenue without requiring Native women to conform to the government's program of stamping out what it considered the dangerous and backward aspects of American Indian culture. |
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