RELG 456 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Selective Breeding, Insitu, Anishinaabe
15 Jun 2018
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INDG Week 4 – Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
** Activity – draw a food that is significant to you **
Manoomin: only native grain to grow in north America
- Stable for indigenous habitants
- Video: how to harvest manoomin
• Introduction of mechanical picking/commercialization
• As you hand pick the rice, most falls into the boat and the amount that falls into the water
creates your source for next year/ feeds water organisms such as fish
• Ait boat entering and making it easier to collect the rice but none of it fell back into the
water to produce sufficient crop for the following year and for this reason they went back
to using the canoe’s rather than a more efficient air boat
- Traditional Manoomin Harvesting
- Meaning and Significance of Manoomin
• Creator gave us this manoomin to help us survive and thrive
• Community
• They believe that if they stop the tradition then the world will also stop
Ojibwe → gender roles associated with wild rice cultivation and how colonization and the great
depression was really reshaped these (reading)
- Production of the rice was the speciality of women – pre-colonialism this was largely female role
to produce and harvest rice which now we see men dominating
- Also, a notion that gender roles were fluid in that if a particular person was best or most skillful in
one job then that’s what they would do, they would not be constrained to their” female role”
- Both men and women are supposed to know how to do both jobs in case something were to
happen
- Wider cultural and legal roles associated with the harvesting of rice → property rights were
performed through binding stocks of rice together and establish claims to these fields/means to
mark territory and ensuring people had equal distribution/their own territory
• Elected ricing committee of men and women who organized harvest, they played a role
protecting the ecosystems and women governing the social control and who farmed
what/where
• Harvesting rice as a communal and social process as well as the labour and food aspects
on this
- How colonialism impacted wild rice cultivation – economically and environmentally?
• Increasing water levels
• Stealing land, private cottages and boating – physical effects on land/pollution
(introduction of carp)
• Selective breeding of rice for desirable traits – fear of cross breading or compromising
the natural biodiversity
• Private property in general and intentional destruction of the fields and clearing the
lands/crop producing areas for lakes or swimming
• Labelling of wild rice in grocery stores today which isn’t actually indigenous wild rice –
rewriting of indigenous learning/food production
• The capitalization of the production of rice – has led to the transformation of Manoomin
as a luxary or “up-scale” food
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Document Summary
** activity draw a food that is significant to you ** Manoomin: only native grain to grow in north america. Meaning and significance of manoomin: creator gave us this manoomin to help us survive and thrive, community, they believe that if they stop the tradition then the world will also stop. Ojibwe gender roles associated with wild rice cultivation and how colonization and the great depression was really reshaped these (reading) Production of the rice was the speciality of women pre-colonialism this was largely female role to produce and harvest rice which now we see men dominating. Also, a notion that gender roles were fluid in that if a particular person was best or most skillful in one job then that"s what they would do, they would not be constrained to their female role . Both men and women are supposed to know how to do both jobs in case something were to happen.
