Ah-di-so-kay anishinabeg (Storytellers) -- Maaitaa (Prologue) -- Nitam igo (Introduction) -- Gah-o-mah-mah-wahn-dah-wi-zid gah-ki-nah-gay-goo ji-gi-kayn-dah-so aki (A prophet is someone who has a completed view of the world : he/she imagines a world that doesn't exist, sees things as they are and asks why, or he/she might dream things that never were and say why not) -- Obwandiac (The Man Who Travelled and Stopped at Many Places) -- Tecumtha (He Walked Across) -- Shingwauk (The White Pine, Boss of All the Trees, because it shares its power with the sun and moon) -- N'swi-ish-ko-day-kawn Anishinabeg O'dish-ko-day-kawn (Our Hearts Are As One Fire) -- Meegwetch bi-zhin-dah-wi-yeg (Thank you for listening to me) -- Wayekwaase (It is finished)
Summary:
"A vision shared. A manifesto. This remarkable work draws on Ojibway-, Ota'wa-, and Ishkodawatomi-Anishinabe world views, history, and lived experience to develop a wholly Ojibway-Anishinabe interpretation of the role of traditional leadership and governance today. Taking as his starting point the idea that Anishinabeg need to reconnect with non-colonized modes of thinking, social organization, and decision making in order to achieve genuine sovereignty, Jerry Fontaine (makwa ogimaa) looks to historically significant models. He tells of three great Ota'wa, Shawnee and Ojibway-Anishinabe leaders - Obwandiac, Tecumtha, and Shingwauk - of the N'swi-ish-ko-day-kawn Anishinabeg O'dish-ko-day-kawn (Three Fires Confederacy). These leaders challenged the violent and aggressive colonial expansion that would shape the future of Manitou Aki (North America). In Our Hearts Are as One Fire Fontaine recounts their stories from an Ojibway-Anishinabe perspective using Ojibwaymowin language and knowledge, woven together with conversations with elders and descendants of the three leaders. The result is a book that reframes the history of Manitou Aki and shares a vision of how Ojibway, Ota'wa and Ishkodawatomi-Anishinabe spiritual and cultural values, language, and legal and political principles will support the leaders of today and tomorrow."-- Provided by publisher.
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