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Author:

Bigmouth, Adam, author.

Title:

Ojibwe stories from the Upper Berens River : A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in conversation / edited and with an introduction by Jennifer S.H. Brown.

Publisher:

co-published by The University of Nebraska Press and the American Philosophical Society,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xxxiii, 188 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illlustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Bigmouth, Adam--Family.
Ojibwa Indians--Folklore.
Ojibwa Indians--History.
Ojibwa Indians--Berens River Valley--Berens River Valley--Biography.
Berens River (First Nation)--History.
Ojibwa mythology.

Other Authors:

Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974, author.
Brown, Jennifer S. H., 1940- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

New visions in Native American and Indigenous studies

ISBN:

1496202252
9781496202253

OCLC:

(OCoLC)995847155

LCCN:

2017017420

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)