Description
James Hull, Published 1969. Wraps, 57 pp.; 26 cm; staple bound; illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings and a pictorial map by an unknown artist, signature appears to be Zavel.
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Condition & notes
In Good condition. Cream illustrated paper covers, a 1-inch tear to the paper at the foot of the spine, a few nicks, bumping and creasing to edges and corners, moderate overall spotting, soiling and toning to both covers. Binding tight. Foxing to edges of the text block, pages mildly toned with occasional light spotting, otherwise unmarked. Self-published account of the Chippewa at Grand Portage on Lake Superior by a trader who lived among them. Hull traces their westward migration from Sault Ste Marie to Madeline Island and La Pointe, then the French marchand voyageurs who learned the language and married into the bands. The second half is contemporary reporting, including the trading post co-op opened in May 1968, its manager a fifth-generation grandson of the Jean Baptiste Cadotte of the North West Fur Company. Hull calls his own verse, printed throughout, "the author's rather bad verse." Final page has an eyewitness account of the fire that destroyed the reconstructed Great Hall at Grand Portage National Monument, dated by Hull to 5:00 a.m. on 14 July 1969 and signed Jim Hull. The Great Hall dated from 1940; its replacement was completed in 1972. A prefatory map of Chippewa Country marks Grand Portage, Madeline Island and La Pointe, the Lodge of Waub-Ojeeg, Old Fond du Lac, Sault Ste Marie, Fort William and Michillimacinac. The author's note describes Hull as an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Mississippi Band, a trader on the White Earth Indian Reservation until 1953 and then trader and business manager for the Grand Portage Band, and as the latest in a family line of Cadottes and Warrens.