Living with Animals : : Ojibwe Spirit Powers /

Living with Animals : : Ojibwe Spirit Powers / / Michael Pomedli.

Within nineteenth-century Ojibwe/Chippewa medicine societies, and in communities at large, animals are realities and symbols that demonstrate cultural principles of North American Ojibwe nations. Living with Animals presents over 100 images from oral and written sources – including birch bark scroll...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Pomedli, Michael ,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2014
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Living With Animals Ojibwe Spirit Powers
  • 1. The Grand Medicine Society, The Midewiwin
  • 2. “Paths Of The Spirit”: Moral Values In The Writings Of Four Nineteenth-Century Ojibwe In The Spirit Of The Midewiwin
  • 3. Otter, The Playful Slider
  • 4. Owls: Images And Voices In The Ojibwe And Midewiwin Worlds
  • 5. Omnipresent And Ambivalent Bears
  • 6. Water Creatures
  • 7. Thunderbirds
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A Leadership Among The Ojibwe
  • Appendix B The Sweat Lodge
  • Appendix C Bear As Celestial
  • Appendix D Ojibwe Historical Relationship With Copper
  • Appendix E Lacrosse And War
  • Notes
  • Archives And Collections
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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