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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Louis Bird , Jennifer S. H. Brown , Paul W. DePasqualePublisher: Broadview Press Ltd Imprint: Broadview Press Ltd Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.370kg ISBN: 9781551115801ISBN 10: 1551115808 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 01 August 2005 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"List of Maps and Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements, The Editors Glossary of Cree Terms Words and Personal Names Place Names Suggested Language Resources Maps Chapter 1: An Omushkego Storyteller and his Book A Quotation Story: ""It Must Be Your Thigh Bone that You Hear"" Chapter 2: ""Now, the Question of Creation"": Stories About Beginnings and the World before We Came Introduction, Paul W. DePasquale Giant Animals Mi-she-shek-kak (The Giant Skunk) Creator Talks to the Animals About the Emergence of the Humans E-hep Chapter 3: Mi-te-wi-win: Stories of Shamanism and Survival Introduction, Mark F. Ruml The Dream Quest and Mi-te-wi-win Guidance and Instruction From an Older Relative Dream Quest Extra Senses - Mind Power Mi-te-wak Fights Introduction to the Shaking Tent, Mark F. Ruml The Shaking Tent Chapter 4: Mi-tew Power: Stories of Shamanic Showdowns Introduction, Mark F. Ruml The Legend of We-mis-shoosh The Young Orphan Boy Defeats a Powerful and Feared Mi-tew Chapter 5: Omens, Mysteries, and First Encounters Introduction, Jennifer S.H. Brown The Omushkego Captive and the Na-to-way-wak: A Remarkable Escape Omens, Mysteries, and First Encounters with Europeans ""I Cannot Have Anything from these We-mis-ti-go-si-wak"" ""In the Memory of the Wikeson I-skwe-o"" Cha-ka-pesh and the Sailors Strangers on Akimiski Island: Helping a Grounded Ship Wa-pa-mo-win, the Mirror Chapter 6: ""The Wailing Clouds"" (Pa-so-way-yan-nask Chi-pe-ta-so-win) Introduction, Anne Lindsay The Wailing Clouds Chapter 7: Arrows and Thunder Sticks: Technologies Old and New Introduction, Roland Bohr On Firearms and Archery Chapter 8: Mi-te-wi-win versus Christianity: Grand Sophia's Story Introduction, Donna G. Sutherland Grand Sophia's Near-Death Experience Chapter 9: Conclusion: Problems and Hopes References Notes on Contributors Index"ReviewsThis is an amazing book, carefully produced with helpful maps, glossary, notes, and illustrations. The editors' preface and Louis Bird's own introduction to his life and work orient the reader so everything works together to create the context for understanding the stories themselves. And the stories are wonderful! Illuminating and ranging widely over a variety of topics and themes, they are skillfully told and rendered. This is a moving and comprehensive book. We should be grateful to Mr. Bird and his collaborators for allowing us into this world. --Brian Swann, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Mr. Louis Bird is a distinguished public intellectual from his Omushkego (Cree) community who has collaborated effectively with scholars from the University of Winnipeg to bring his knowledge to his own community and beyond. Rarely do outsiders have such an opportunity to hear an elder speak in the full range of oral tradition genres: from creation stories and traditional legends to historical memories passed down by previous generations of cultural experts within the community, to personal experiences, to elegiac reflection on contemporary loss of culture and language (which he dates to 1980 when most people stopped living on the land). These narratives are unified by Mr. Bird's self-confidence and pride in his Omushkego ways. He has sought out others with traditional knowledge and incorporated their words in his own synthesis. He records this knowledge, which is the intellectual property of his community, so that future generations will have access to it. --Regna Darnell, Director of First Nations Studies Program, University of Western Ontario This is an amazing book. We should be grateful to Mr. Bird and his collaborators for allowing us into this world. - Brian Swann, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art This is an amazing book, carefully produced with helpful maps, glossary, notes, and illustrations. The editors' preface and Louis Bird's own introduction to his life and work orient the reader so everything works together to create the context for understanding the stories themselves. And the stories are wonderful! Illuminating and ranging widely over a variety of topics and themes, they are skillfully told and rendered. This is a moving and comprehensive book. We should be grateful to Mr. Bird and his collaborators for allowing us into this world.--Brian Swann, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Mr. Louis Bird is a distinguished public intellectual from his Omushkego (Cree) community who has collaborated effectively with scholars from the University of Winnipeg to bring his knowledge to his own community and beyond. Rarely do outsiders have such an opportunity to hear an elder speak in the full range of oral tradition genres: from creation stories and traditional legends to historical memories passed down by previous generations of cultural experts within the community, to personal experiences, to elegiac reflection on contemporary loss of culture and language (which he dates to 1980 when most people stopped living on the land). These narratives are unified by Mr. Bird's self-confidence and pride in his Omushkego ways. He has sought out others with traditional knowledge and incorporated their words in his own synthesis. He records this knowledge, which is the intellectual property of his community, so that future generations will have access to it.--Regna Darnell, Director of First Nations Studies Program, University of Western Ontario Author InformationLouis Bird is a widely known storyteller and historian of his Omushkego (Swampy Cree) people. A member of Winisk First Nation, he resides in Peawanuck near the shore of Hudson Bay. He has devoted the last three decades to preserving Omushkego stories, language, and history on audiotape. More than 80 of the stories he has gathered, along with overviews of his life story and the Winisk region, are presented on the website www.ourvoices.ca, produced by the Omushkego Oral History Project at the University of Winnipeg. Jennifer S.H. Brown is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Winnipeg, Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Peoples in an Urban and Regional Context, and Director of the Centre for Rupert's Land Studies at the University of Winnipeg. She is the author of Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country (University of Oklahoma Press, 1996). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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