Centering Anishinaabeg studies : understanding the world through stories / edited by Jill Doerfler, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Doerfler, Jill.

Sinclair, Niigaanwewidam James.

Stark, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik.

Series:

American Indian studies series (East Lansing, Mich.)

American Indian studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Indian authors.

American literature.

Ojibwa Indians--Literary collections.

Ojibwa Indians.

Ojibwa Indians--History.

Ojibwa Indians--Conduct of life.

Ojibwa Indians--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (447 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For the Anishinaabeg people, who span a vast geographic region from the Great Lakes to the Plains and beyond, stories are vessels of knowledge. They are bagijiganan, offerings of the possibilities within Anishinaabeg life. Existing along a broad narrative spectrum, from aadizookaanag (traditional or sacred narratives) to dibaajimowinan (histories and news)-as well as everything in between-storytelling is one of the central practices and methods of individual and community existence. Stories create and understand, survive and endure, revitalize and persist. They honor the past, recognize the p

Contents:

Contents; Maajitaadaa: Nanaboozhoo and the Flood, Part 2 - John Borrows; Bagijige: Making an Offering - Jill Doerfler, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark; Eko-bezhig Bagijigan: Stories as Roots; Is That All There Is? Tribal Literature - Basil H. Johnston; Name': Literary Ancestry as Presence - Heid E. Erdrich; Beshaabiiag G'gikenmaaigowag: Comets of Knowledge - Margaret Noori; Eko-niizh Bagijigan: Stories as Relationships; The Story Is a Living Being: Companionship with Stories in Anishinaabeg Studies - Eva Marie Garroutte and Kathleen Delores Westcott

K'zaugin: Storying Ourselves into Life - Niigaanwewidam James SinclairTeaching as Story - Thomas Peacock; Eko-niswi Bagijigan: Stories as Revelations; Every Dream Is a Prophecy: Rethinking Revitalization - Dreams, Prophets, and Routinized Cultural Evolution - Cary Miller; Constitutional Narratives: A Conversation with Gerald Vizenor - Gerald Vizenor and James Mackay; And the Easter Bunny Dies: Old Traditions from New Stories - Julie Pelletier; Eko-niiwin Bagijigan: Stories as Resiliency

A Philosophy for Living: Ignatia Broker and Constitutional Reform among the White Earth Anishinaabeg - Jill DoerflerA Perfect Copy: Indian Culture and Tribal Law - Matthew L. M. Fletcher; The Hydromythology of the Anishinaabeg: Will Mishipizhu Survive Climate Change, or Is He Creating It? - Melissa K. Nelson; Eko-naanan Bagijigan: Stories as Resistance; Wild Rice Rights: Gerald Vizenor and an Affiliation of Story - Kimberly Blaeser; Transforming the Trickster: Federal Indian Law Encounters Anishinaabe Diplomacy - Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark

Theorizing Resurgence from within Nishnaabeg Thought - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson with Edna ManitowabiEko-ingodwaasi Bagijigan: Stories as Reclamation; Aadizookewininiwag and the Visual Arts: Story as Process and Principle in Twenty-First Century Anishinaabeg Painting - David Stirrup; Stories as Mshkiki: Reflections on the Healing and Migratory Practices of Minwaajimo - Dylan A. T. Miner; Horizon Lines, Medicine Painting, and Moose Calling: The Visual/Performative Storytelling of Three Anishinaabeg Artists - Molly McGlennen; Eko-niizhwaasi Bagijigan: Stories as Reflections

Anishinaabeg Studies: Creative, Critical, Ethical, and Reflexive Brock PitawanakwatTelling All of Our Stories: Reorienting the Legal and Political Events of the Anishinaabeg - Keith Richotte Jr.; On the Road Home: Stories and Reflections from Neyaashiinigiming - Lindsay Keegitah Borrows; About the Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-62895-061-7

1-60917-353-8

OCLC:

822019838