| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiii, 188 pages). |
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text file |
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New visions in Native American and Indigenous studies
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New visions in Native American and indigenous studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Places of publication from publishers' websites respectively. |
| Contents |
Map of the world of Adam Bigmouth -- Prologue: Little Grand Rapids, 1932: Adam declines to conjure -- Boyhood memories -- Working for the Hudson's Bay Company -- Dream experiences -- Curing, helping, love medicine, and an old man's jealousy -- Northern Barred Owl, man of many powers -- Gender, power, and the problematics of incest -- The challenges and risks of being female -- Bad medicine and old men's threats -- Starvation threatened and real -- Encounters and contests with windigos -- Human beings made into windigos -- The curing of windigos -- The costs of mockery and cruelty -- Magical medicines and powers -- Afterword: cousins and connections, power and succession, seeking life. |
| Summary |
In Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River Jennifer S.H. Brown presents the dozens of stories and memories that A. Irving Hallowell recorded from Adam (Samuel) Bigmouth, son of Ochiipwamoshiish (Northern Barred Owl), at Little Grand Rapids in the summers of 1938 and 1940. The stories range widely across the lives of four generations of Anishinaabeg along the Berens River in Manitoba and northwestern Ontario. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bigmouth, Adam -- Family.
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Bigmouth, Adam. |
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Families. |
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Ojibwa Indians -- Folklore.
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Ojibwa Indians. |
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Folklore.
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Ojibwa Indians -- History.
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History. |
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Ojibwa Indians -- Manitoba -- Berens River Valley -- Biography.
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Manitoba -- Berens River Valley. |
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Biographies.
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Berens River (First Nation) -- History.
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Ojibwa mythology.
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Ojibwa mythology. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974, author.
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Brown, Jennifer S. H., 1940- editor.
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| Added Title |
A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in conversation |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bigmouth, Adam. Ojibwe stories from the Upper Berens River. Lincoln, NB : University of Nebraska Press ; co-published with the American Philosophical Society, [2018] 9781496202253 (DLC) 2017017420 |
| ISBN |
9781496204486 (electronic book) |
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1496204484 (electronic book) |
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9781496204462 |
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1496204468 |
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9781496204479 |
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1496204476 |
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9781496202253 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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1496202252 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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