{"product_id":"making-the-carry-the-lives-of-john-and-tchi-ki-wis-linklater-9781517913885","title":"Making the Carry: The Lives of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn extraordinary illustrated biography of a Métis man and Anishinaabe woman navigating great changes in their homeland along the U.S.-Canada border in the early twentieth century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e John Linklater, of Anishinaabeg, Cree, and Scottish ancestry, and his wife, Tchi-Ki-Wis, of the Lac La Croix First Nation, lived in the canoe and border country of Ontario and Minnesota from the 1870s until the 1930s. During that time, the couple experienced radical upheavals in the Quetico-Superior region, including the cutting of white and red pine forests, the creation of Indian reserves\/reservations and conservation areas, and the rise of towns, tourism, and mining. With broad geographical sweep, historical significance, and biographical depth, \u003ci\u003eMaking the Carry \u003c\/i\u003etells their story, overlooked for far too long.\u003cp\u003eJohn Linklater, a renowned game warden and skilled woodsman, was also the bearer of traditional ecological knowledge and Indigenous heritage, both of which he was deeply committed to teaching others. He was sought by professors, newspaper reporters, museum personnel, and conservationists--among them Sigurd Olson, who considered Linklater a mentor. Tchi-Ki-Wis, an extraordinary craftswoman, made a sweeping array of necessary yet beautiful objects, from sled dog harnesses to moose calls to birch bark canoes. She was an expert weaver of large Anishinaabeg cedar bark mats with complicated geometric designs, a virtually lost art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking the Carry\u003c\/i\u003e traces the routes by which the couple came to live on Basswood Lake on the international border. John's Métis ancestors with deep Hudson's Bay Company roots originally came from Orkney Islands, Scotland, by way of Hudson Bay and Red River, or what is now Winnipeg. His family lived in Manitoba, northwest Ontario, northern Minnesota, and, in the case ofJohn and Tchi-Ki-Wis, on Isle Royale. A journey through little-known Canadian history, the book provides an intimate portrait of Métis people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComplete with rarely seen photographs of activities from dog mushing to guiding to lumbering, as well as of many objects made by Tchi-Ki-Wis, such as canoes, moccasins, and cedar mats, \u003ci\u003eMaking the Carry\u003c\/i\u003e is a window on a traditional way of life and a restoration of two fascinating Indigenous people to their rightful place in our collective past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimothy Cochrane was superintendent at Grand Portage National Monument for twenty years, where he worked closely with the Grand Portage Band of Anishinaabeg and the tribal council. His books include \u003ci\u003eA Good Boat Speaks for Itself: Isle Royale Fishermen and Their Boats \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais: Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade, \u003c\/i\u003e both from Minnesota, and \u003ci\u003eMinong: The Good Place--Ojibwe and Isle Royale. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615195861266,"sku":"9781517913885","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1db916f4-2a0c-4895-b87a-60caa903360d.jpg?v=1732477976","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/making-the-carry-the-lives-of-john-and-tchi-ki-wis-linklater-9781517913885","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}