EMILY PEAKE:
An Inventory of her Research File on Minnesota Ojibwe Women at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Peake, Emily, creator. | |
| Title: | Research file on Minnesota Ojibwe women. | |
| Dates: | 1887-1994 (bulk 1990-1994). | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Materials collected and created by Minneapolis Ojibwe activist Emily Peake (1920-1995) while researching traditional, transitional, and contemporary life styles of Minnesota Ojibwe women under the auspices of the Minnesota Historical Society Women's History Grants Program. | |
| Quantity: | 0.1 cubic feet (1 box), 1 master audio file: WAV (776 MB), and 1 user audio file: MP3 (152 MB). | |
| Location: | P2615 |
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Emily Peake was born in Minneapolis May 28, 1920, and was the daughter of Frederick W. Peake and Louise Beaupre Peake. She was a member of the White Earth Ojibwe. During World War II she served in the Women's Coast Guard Reserve, and after the war worked for the U.S. State Department in Vienna. Peake was later instrumental in founding the Upper Midwest American Indian Center, Minneapolis.
Emily Peake died April 18, 1995. Her ashes were interred in Saint Columba Episcopal Church Cemetery, White Earth Township, Becker County, Minnesota.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Emily Peake Research File on Minnesota Ojibwe Women. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 15,732
Location of Master File:
Digital master of the audiocassette is maintained on the Society's secure digital collections storage servers and is managed and preserved in accordance with archival best practices.
The original audiocassette was disposed after the material was digitally reformatted into a wav file.
Processing Information:
Processed by: Deborah M. Kahn, January 2005
Digitization and encoding by April Rodriguez, May 16, 2023.
Digital audio transferred from the master audiocassette by the Minnesota Historical Society for preservation purposes (May 2023).
Digitization was made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the vote of Minnesotans on November 4, 2008.
The image of Emily Peake (above) was taken from Minnesota History Magazine, Volume 61 (Spring 2009), page 202.
Catalog ID number: 990036007400104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| Box | |||||||||||
| P2615 | 1 | Emily Peake's grant file, 1990-1994. | |||||||||
| "Portraits of Anishanabe women from 1830 to 1993" and excerpts from the writings of Day Dodge; and "The Ojibwa Indians--their customs and traditions" (Day Dodge), undated, December 1887. | |||||||||||
| Transcriptions of Peake's Ignatia Broker interview, undated. | |||||||||||
| Edited and literal versions. | |||||||||||
| Story of Bear Woman, undated. | |||||||||||
| Winnifred Jourdain: | |||||||||||
| Clippings, undated, 1991, 1994. | |||||||||||
| Biographical sketch, undated. | |||||||||||
| Photographs, 1940s, 1955. 2 photographs. | |||||||||||
| One portrait of Winifred Jourdain and one group photograph. | |||||||||||
| Internet | Interview, 1990s. 1 master audio file (39 minutes, 21 seconds): WAV (198 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (37.1 MB). | ||||||||||
 Digital audio | |||||||||||
RELATED MATERIALS
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Ojibwa Indians--Minnesota--Folklore.
- Ojibwa Indians--Minnesota--Social life and customs.
- Ojibwa women--Minnesota.
- Persons:
- Broker, Ignatia, interviewee.
- Dodge, Day, author.
- Jourdain, Winifred, interviewee.
- Document Types:
- Oral histories (document genres)
- Photographs.
- Sound recordings.
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