The Orders of the Dreamed

by Brown, Jennifer S. H.; Brightman, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780873513708
• ISBN10: 0873513703
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Pr

Table of Contents

Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
PART I INTRODUCTION	1	(26)
George Nelson	3	(1)
Background, Career, and Writings	3	(1)
Family and Childhood	4	(1)
The Wisconsin Years	5	(5)
The Lake Winnipeg Period	10	(3)
A Decade of Changes	13	(2)
The Lac la Ronge Phase	15	(5)
Interpreting the Indians: Nelson's Frameworks and Dilemmas	20	(4)
Editorial Procedures	24	(3)
PART II GEORGE NELSON'S LETTER-JOURNAL	27	(90)
Conjuring at Lac la Ronge, December 1819	29	(4)
Dreaming to Conjure and Predict	33	(2)
The Spirits, their Shapes, and their Songs	35	(1)
The Supreme Being	35	(1)
Old Nick (Key-jick-oh-kay)	36	(1)
Other Beings	37	(1)
The Sun; Nelson's Dream	37	(1)
Roots and Herbs	38	(1)
The Manner of Conjuring	39	(1)
The Spirits Enter: Their Names and Natures	39	(4)
The Conjurors' Power	43	(1)
A Cree Myth, 1823: The Birth of Wee-suck-a-jock and Mi-shaw-bose	44	(1)
The Battle of Weesuckajock and the water Lynxes	45	(2)
The Making of the Land	47	(1)
The Making of Human Beings	48	(1)
The Son of Weesuckajock	49	(1)
Sickness in Spirit Form: A Lac la Ronge Cree Account	49	(2)
The Spirits' Gifts and Demands	51	(1)
Encounters with Pah-kack (Skeleton)	51	(2)
Sacrifices and Feasts for Pah-kack	53	(1)
Pah-kack Feasts at Lac la Ronge	54	(1)
Medicines and the Abode of ``Esculapius''	55	(3)
Songs: Their Transmission and Uses	58	(2)
Conjuring against Starvation, Wisconsin, 1804	60	(2)
The Soul	62	(2)
Soul-darting	64	(1)
Sorcery for Protection and Revenge	65	(1)
Sexual Sorcery	66	(2)
Hunting Medicine	68	(1)
Love Medicine	69	(2)
Hunters Bewitched and Restored	71	(2)
An Iroquois Hunter Bewitched	73	(2)
Stories of Nay-han-nee-mis	75	(5)
Man in his Natural State	80	(1)
Skepticism, Belief, and Innovation	81	(2)
Conjuring for a North West Company Gentleman	83	(1)
The Lost Traveller and the Wolf Spirit	84	(1)
Pursuit by a Pah-kack	85	(1)
The Windigo	85	(1)
Baiting a Windigo	86	(2)
Sources and Forms of Windigo	88	(2)
Windigo Dreams	90	(1)
Windigo Possession, Lake Winnipeg	91	(1)
A Windigo Execution	92	(1)
Windigo Cures and Precautions	93	(1)
Malignant Spirits	94	(1)
Affinities and Origins	95	(1)
Deviance, Confession, and Expiation	96	(4)
Feasts	100	(2)
Conjuring at Lac la Ronge, June 1823	102	(5)
Dramatis Personae	107	(1)
Key-shay mani-to	107	(1)
Kee-jick-oh-kay	108	(1)
Wee-suck-a-jock	108	(1)
Michi-Pichoux	108	(1)
Sea Serpent	109	(1)
O-may-me-thay-day-ace-cae-wuck	110	(1)
Mermaid and Sea Man	110	(1)
Mee-key-nock	110	(1)
Bull or Buffaloe	111	(1)
Pah-kack (Skeleton)	111	(1)
North Wind/North	112	(1)
Thunder	112	(1)
Crazy Woman/Foolish, Mad, Jealous Woman/Folly/Jealousy	112	(1)
Nay-han-nee-mis	112	(1)
Mee-shaw-bose/Mi-shaw-bose	113	(1)
Sun	113	(1)
Moon	113	(1)
Esculapius	113	(1)
Sickness/Plague	113	(1)
Strong Neck/Hercules	114	(1)
Pike/Jackfish	114	(1)
Loon	114	(1)
Wolverine	114	(1)
Flying Squirrel	114	(1)
Bear	114	(1)
Dog	115	(1)
Snow	115	(1)
Kingfisher	115	(1)
Horse	115	(1)
Ice	115	(1)
Stone	115	(2)
PART III NORTHERN ALGONQUIAN RELIGIOUS AND MYTHIC THEMES AND PERSONAGES: CONTEXTS AND COMPARISONS	117	(70)
Cosmogonic Myths and Beings from Lac la Ronge	124	(1)
The Trickster--Transformer, Wisahkecahk	125	(3)
Nelson's Version of the Wisahkecahk Cycle	128	(9)
Nehanimis, North Wind, and the Hairy Breasts	137	(1)
Dream Guardians and the Vision Fast	138	(1)
The Vision Fast	139	(4)
The Human-Pawakan Relationship	143	(3)
The Shaking Lodge	146	(1)
Purposes of Conjuring	147	(1)
The Practice of Conjuring	148	(4)
The Languages of Conjuring	152	(4)
Nelson's Explanations of Conjuring	156	(2)
The Windigo Complex	158	(1)
Human and Nonhuman Windigos in Historical Context	159	(4)
Windigo Disorders	163	(2)
Origins of Windigo Behavior	165	(3)
Pragmatics of Windigo	168	(2)
The Symbolic Structure of the Windigo Complex	170	(1)
Medicine: Healing and Sorcery	171	(1)
Disease Theory and Healing Techniques	172	(1)
Medicine Dreams and Visions	173	(3)
Sorcery	176	(4)
Medicine for Hunting and Love	180	(1)
Confession	181	(3)
A Final Note	184	(3)
PART IV	187	(18)
On Nelson's Text	189	(10)
Stan Cuthand
On the Ethics of Publishing Historical Documents	199	(6)
Emma LaRocque
References	205	(14)
Index	219