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The Image Of Limited Good In Ojibway Society, Jeffrey C. Moore Jan 1969

The Image Of Limited Good In Ojibway Society, Jeffrey C. Moore

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Ojibway Indians of the north-central United States have had great difficulty in organizing effectively to work toward common economic, social, and political ends. This has been the case historically and remains true today. The basic reason for the inability to organize is on orientation to life which Foster has described in his theory of the Image of Limited Good, and which was observed on a Minnesota reservation.