The Modern Chippewa Indian 1946 Oijbwe Native American Tribe Educational Film 78934

The Modern Chippewa Indian 1946 Oijbwe Native American Tribe Educational Film 78934

Produced by Simmel-Meservey, this film "The Modern Chippeway Indian" examines the Chippewa tribe as viewed through a 1946 lens. Simmel-Meservey produced a number of social guidance and travelogue films during the 1940's and 1950's. The film does contain some gratuitous language and essentially details the indoctrination of the Native American into the culture of the United States which some may consider off-putting and demeaning. It details modern life on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota in the post WW2 era as their methods of living were drastically altered in a forceful and methodic process. Methods of agriculture were greatly shaped; tribes traditionally produced only enough goods for their families. It shows footage of the implementation of modern industrial farming styles. Fishing too is looked to as the over sourced Red Lake became a new source for city markets. The Chippewa; or the Ojibwa were Anishinaabe people residing in portions of Canada and the Midwestern and Great Plains region of the US. They were highly regarded for their birch bark scrolls; for maintaining detailed and complex scrolls of social events, songs, maps and memories. The film was produced by Frederick Jones and Rand Kellogg (:26). Reenactment footage opens with Native Americans parading down dirt on the fourth of July (:37). The reservation entryway appears (:52). Grounds were maintained by the government and the actions of the tribe were mostly under control of federal agent (1:04). Horses drag plows over land as the term 'mission farm' is explained (1:21). Native Americans buzz by on modern farming equipment resembling that of their American counter parts (1:26). The dairy cows follow (1:35). Prim white chapels (1:54) rows of neat crops (2:00) and the new American high school for new education purposes (2:31). A stone notes the location of Red Lake Hospital (2:38). A Chippewa artist sets down at the easel, hair slicked black (2:55). He once served in the Navy. Close shots of his wo

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