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Traditions of Descent

by William W. Warren

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William Whipple Warren ( 1825-1853), son of an Ojibwa woman and a
New England fur trader, received his formal education at mission schools and
at the Oneida Institute in New York. He served as interpreter for the Indian
agency at La Pointe, Wisconsin, before being elected to the legislature of
Minnesota a few years before his early death. During his last few years, he
wrote several sketches on Ojibwa customs for The Minnesota Democrat.
In 1852 Warren completed a history of the Ojibwa, but it was not published
until 1885, when it appeared as "History of the Ojibways, Based upon

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SOURCE: De Lestry's Western Magazine, 3, No. 2 ( December 1898), 40-47. The
article is subtitled as follows: "Ojibway lore relating to their origin. A possibility
of an early connection with the lost tribes of Israel. Religious beliefs in har-
mony with the Old Testament. With additional views of Leech Lake. From the
Manuscript of WILLIAM W. WARREN." Five photographs are interspersed
throughout the article, but they have little pertinence to what Warren is writ-
ing about.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Native American Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals. Contributors: William M. Clements - author. Publisher: Swallow Press. Place of Publication: Athens, OH. Publication Year: 1986. Page Number: 253.
    
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