Summer in the Spring

by Vizenor, Gerald Robert

• ISBN13: 9780806125183
• ISBN10: 0806125187
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

The Anishinaabe, otherwise named the Ojibwe or Chippewa, are famous for their lyric songs and stories, particularly because of their compassionate trickster, naanabozbo, and the healing rituals still practiced today in the society of the Midewiwin. The poems and tales, interpreted and reexpressed here by the distinguished Anishinaabe author Gerald Vizenor, were first transcribed more than a century ago by pioneering ethnographer Frances Densmore and Theodore Hudson Beaulieu, a newspaper editor on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota. This superb anthology, illustrated with tribal pictomyths and helpfully annotated, includes translations and a glossary of the Anishinaabe words in which the poems and stories originally were spoken.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 3
Anishinaabeg Lyric Poems	p. 21
Anishinaabeg Stories and Tales	p. 63
The Anishinaabeg	p. 64
Naming Children	p. 65
Anishinaabeg Women	p. 68
Anishinaabeg Men	p. 71
Tale of the Robin	p. 73
Anishinaabeg Marriage	p. 77
Anishinaabeg Spirit	p. 81
The Midewiwin	p. 89
Midewiwin Initiation	p. 93
Birth of Naanabozho	p. 100
Naanabozho Obtains Fire	p. 104
Naanabozho and Nookomis	p. 111
Naanabozho and Missameg	p. 116
Return of Naanabozho	p. 121
Naanabozho and His Father	p. 124
Naanabozho and the Gambler	p. 129
Interpretive Notes	p. 133
Page Notes	p. 142
Anishinaabemowin Glossary	p. 158
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