Ojibwa Narratives

by Bourgeois, Arthur P.; Kidder, Homer H.

• ISBN13: 9780814325155
• ISBN10: 0814325157
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-06-01
• Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 9
Editor's Introduction	p. 11
Introductory note	p. 21
Nanabozho	p. 25
Kawbawgam's Remarks on Nanabozho	p. 30
How Nanabozho Came to Have a Wolf Companion	p. 32
Nanabozho in Time of Famine	p. 33
The Diver	p. 36
Nanabozho Plays at Being Dead	p. 37
The Lost War Party	p. 38
Thunderbirds and the Medicine Root	p. 40
The Mishi Ginabig and the Thunderbirds	p. 42
Mishi Ginabig in Lake Michigamme	p. 43
Water Spirits in Sable Lake	p. 45
The Curing of I-que-wa-gun	p. 48
The Great Turtle	p. 51
The Girl and the Midewug	p. 52
The Midewiwin	p. 55
The Jessakkiwin and the Mide	p. 57
The Jessakkiwin	p. 59
The Cedar Knife	p. 61
Paying the Devil	p. 65
Fasting and Medicine Songs	p. 67
Iron Maker	p. 69
Note on Iron Maker	p. 70
Kwasind	p. 71
Nibawnawbe	p. 74
A Famine and How a Medicine Man Saved the People	p. 79
Fragment of a Medicine Story	p. 81
The Snow Rabbit and the North Wind	p. 83
The Man Who Died Three Times	p. 84
The Man from the World Above	p. 85
The Robin	p. 89
The Whippoorwill	p. 90
The Sister's Ghost	p. 91
The Beast Men	p. 92
The Great Skunk	p. 96
The Great Bear of the West	p. 97
The Great Skunk and the Great Bear of the West	p. 101
Wampum Hair	p. 102
The Girls and the Porcupine	p. 108
Chickadee Boy	p. 109
The League of the Four Upper Algonquian Nations	p. 112
Fight with the Iroquois	p. 114
Two Stories of Sauks Head	p. 116
Sauks at Portage Entry	p. 122
Some Ojibwa History	p. 124
Wyagaw	p. 126
Our Brother-in-Law's Adventures	p. 129
Aitkin and the Ojibwa	p. 131
The Story of a Half-breed	p. 134
Major Rains	p. 138
Jacques LePique's Reminiscences, Preliminary Note	p. 139
Reminiscences of Jacques LePique - A Journey to the Arctic	p. 141
Adventures on the Prairie (about 1833) A Massacre by the Sioux	p. 142
Jacques' Life at the Sault and on Lake Superior	p. 144
Overland Trails	p. 152
Some Ojibwa Place Names	p. 154
Ojibwa Names of the Twelve Moons or Months of the Year	p. 158
Notes On Kawbawgam	p. 159
Appendix	p. 161
Bibliography	p. 163
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