From 1930 to 1940, A. Irving Hallowell, a professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, made repeated summer fieldwork visits to Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, and to the Ojibwe community at Berens River on the lake's east side. Contributions to Ojibwe Studies presents twenty-eight of Hallowell's writings focusing on the Ojibwe people at Berens River.
A. Irving Hallowell (1892¿1974) was an American anthropologist who taught for most of his life at the University of Pennsylvania. Jennifer S. H. Brown holds a Canada Research Chair and is director of the Centre for Rupert¿s Land Studies at the University of Winnipeg. She has published widely on Northern Algonquian and fur trade history, and coedited, with Susan Elaine Gray, Memories, Myths, and Dreams of an Ojibwe Leader by William Berens. Susan Elaine Gray, an award-winning scholar of Northern Algonquian history and cultures, teaches Aboriginal history and is the research associate to the Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Peoples and Histories at the University of Winnipeg. She is the coeditor of The Spirit Lives in the Mind: Omushkego Stories, Lives, and Dreams.
