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1 online resource (416 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Challenging Western Thought -- The Power of Bear Grease -- Bears as Persons -- Transformative Possibilities Make Definitive Judgments Difficult -- Introduction -- Scope of This Book -- Geography of the Ojibwe -- Goals and Methodology -- Use of Terms, Spellings, and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Genesis of This Book -- Permissions -- 1 The Grand Medicine Society, the Midewiwin -- Membership -- Wabeno, Jessakkid, and Midewiwin -- Origins of the Midewiwin -- Cosmic Ordering -- Nanabush |
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Health and the MidewiwinFunctions of the Midewiwin -- Sound of the Drum -- Medicine Bags -- Birch Bark Scrolls, the Lodge, Teachings, Ceremonies -- Midewiwin and Rock Art -- Bear, the “Guiding Spirit of the Midewiwin� -- Megis/Shell -- Midewiwin and Leadership -- 2 “Paths of the Spirit�: Moral Values in the Writings of Four Nineteenth-Century Ojibwe in the Spirit of the Midewiwin -- Peter Jones: Like the “Red Squirrel� Who Stores Nuts, Store Works of the Great Spirit -- Andrew J. Blackbird: “The Great Spirit is looking upon thee continually� |
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George Copway: “I am one of Nature�s children� William Whipple Warren: “There is much yet to be learned from the wild and apparently simple son of the forest� -- 3 Otter, the Playful Slider -- Physical Otter -- Otter as Representational -- Otter as Patterned -- Otter and Ojibwe Standards of Life -- 4 Owls: Images and Voices in the Ojibwe and Midewiwin Worlds -- Classification and Characteristics of Owls -- Owl as Bad Luck, Bad Medicine -- Owl as Protector and Healer -- Owl as a Teacher of Altruism -- Owl and Directions, Winds, and Seasons |
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Owl and the DeadOwl and Conservation -- Owl and Origin of Day and Night -- Representations of Owl -- 5 Omnipresent and Ambivalent Bears -- Bears� Anatomy, Physiology, and Behaviour -- Ojibwe Relationships with Bears -- Representations of Bear in Ceremonial Performances -- Near-Identity of Bears and Ojibwe -- Bear in the Midewiwin Ceremonies -- Totems/Dodems, Clans -- Evil Bears -- Bear as Archshadow -- Bear as Celestial -- Bears and Visions of Sound -- Bear as Medicine and Healer: Following the Bear Path -- Bear as Patterned -- Bear as Child Abductor |
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Bear as Environmental Guardian, MotherGames -- Bear and Greed -- 6 Water Creatures -- Harmful Creatures -- Snakes and the Afterlife -- Helpful Creatures -- Women, Water, and Snakes -- Sea Creatures and Copper -- Sea Creatures and Silver -- The Little People -- 7 Thunderbirds -- Thunderbirds as Givers -- Relationships among Humans, Sky, and Water Creatures -- Birds and Play -- Thunderbirds and Ojibwe Life -- Thunderers as Communicators and Protectors -- Thunderbird Symbolism -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Leadership among the Ojibwe |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Midewiwin.
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Midewiwin. |
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Ojibwa Indians -- Religion.
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Ojibwa Indians -- Religion. |
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism. |
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- General. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Pomedli, Michael. Living with Animals 9781442614796 (OCoLC)862039369 |
| ISBN |
9781442667044 (electronic book) |
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1442667044 (electronic book) |
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9781442667051 (electronic book) |
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1442667052 (electronic book) |
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9781442614796 |
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144261479X |
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