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Living with Animals : Ojibwe Spirit Powers / Michael Pomedli.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pomedli, Michael, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Midewiwin.
- Ojibwa Indians--Religion.
- Ojibwa Indians.
- Ojibwa Indians--Medicine.
- Ojibwa Indians--Rites and ceremonies.
- Animals--Religious aspects.
- Animals.
- Animals--Symbolic aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (378 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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 scrolls, rock art, stories, games, and dreams – in which animals appear as kindred beings, spirit powers, healers, and protectors.Michael Pomedli shows that the principles at play in these sources are not merely evidence of cultural values, but also unique standards brought to treaty signings by Ojibwe leaders. In addition, these principles are norms against which North American treaty interpretations should be reframed. The author provides an important foundation for ongoing treaty negotiations, and for what contemporary Ojibwe cultural figures corroborate as ways of leading a good, integrated life.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Challenging Western Thought
- The Power of Bear Grease
- Bears as Persons
- Transformative Possibilities Make Definitive Judgments Difficult
- Introduction
- Scope of This Book
- Geography of the Ojibwe
- Goals and Methodology
- Use of Terms, Spellings, and Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Genesis of This Book
- Permissions
- 1 The Grand Medicine Society, the Midewiwin
- Membership
- Wabeno, Jessakkid, and Midewiwin
- Origins of the Midewiwin
- Cosmic Ordering
- Nanabush
- Health and the MidewiwinFunctions of the Midewiwin
- Sound of the Drum
- Medicine Bags
- Birch Bark Scrolls, the Lodge, Teachings, Ceremonies
- Midewiwin and Rock Art
- Bear, the â€oeGuiding Spirit of the Midewiwinâ€?
- Megis/Shell
- Midewiwin and Leadership
- 2 â€oePaths of the Spiritâ€?: Moral Values in the Writings of Four Nineteenth-Century Ojibwe in the Spirit of the Midewiwin
- Peter Jones: Like the â€oeRed Squirrelâ€? Who Stores Nuts, Store Works of the Great Spirit
- Andrew J. Blackbird: â€oeThe Great Spirit is looking upon thee continuallyâ€?
- George Copway: â€oeI am one of Natureâ€?s childrenâ€? William Whipple Warren: â€oeThere is much yet to be learned from the wild and apparently simple son of the forestâ€?
- 3 Otter, the Playful Slider
- Physical Otter
- Otter as Representational
- Otter as Patterned
- Otter and Ojibwe Standards of Life
- 4 Owls: Images and Voices in the Ojibwe and Midewiwin Worlds
- Classification and Characteristics of Owls
- Owl as Bad Luck, Bad Medicine
- Owl as Protector and Healer
- Owl as a Teacher of Altruism
- Owl and Directions, Winds, and Seasons
- Owl and the DeadOwl and Conservation
- Owl and Origin of Day and Night
- Representations of Owl
- 5 Omnipresent and Ambivalent Bears
- Bears� Anatomy, Physiology, and Behaviour
- Ojibwe Relationships with Bears
- Representations of Bear in Ceremonial Performances
- Near-Identity of Bears and Ojibwe
- Bear in the Midewiwin Ceremonies
- Totems/Dodems, Clans
- Evil Bears
- Bear as Archshadow
- Bear as Celestial
- Bears and Visions of Sound
- Bear as Medicine and Healer: Following the Bear Path
- Bear as Patterned
- Bear as Child Abductor
- Bear as Environmental Guardian, MotherGames
- Bear and Greed
- 6 Water Creatures
- Harmful Creatures
- Snakes and the Afterlife
- Helpful Creatures
- Women, Water, and Snakes
- Sea Creatures and Copper
- Sea Creatures and Silver
- The Little People
- 7 Thunderbirds
- Thunderbirds as Givers
- Relationships among Humans, Sky, and Water Creatures
- Birds and Play
- Thunderbirds and Ojibwe Life
- Thunderers as Communicators and Protectors
- Thunderbird Symbolism
- Conclusion
- Appendix A: Leadership among the Ojibwe
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-6705-2
- 1-4426-6704-4
- OCLC:
- 872600932
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