Prophecy and power among the Dogrib Indians / June Helm. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Helm, June, 1924-

Contributor:

Indiana University, Bloomington. American Indian Studies Research Institute.

Series:

Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians

Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians Prophecy and power among the Dogrib Indians

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dogrib Indians--Religion.

Dogrib Indians.

Dogrib mythology.

Nativistic movements--Northwest Territories.

Nativistic movements.

Shamanism--Northwest Territories.

Shamanism.

Dogrib Indians--Folklore.

Dogrib Indians--Religion--Northwest Territories--Folklore.

Dogrib Indians--Northwest Territories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 172 p. ) ill., maps ;

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Dogrib Indians are one of the Dene groups - Athapaskan-speaking peoples of the western Canadian Subarctic. Based on the author's field studies from 1959 to 1976, this volume presents an ethnographic description of the Dogrib prophet movement.

Contents:

Orthography

Three styles in the practice of prophecy: 1. Prelude to prophecy: To set the stage; Travels and contacts in the Dogrib Prophet Movement; Becoming a prophet: Chi's coming to prophecy, Naidzo's coming the prophecy, Jack the Rae Prophet ; 2. Message, performance, and persona: Message; Performance: The Prophet Ceremony of Jack the Rae Prophet; Persona

3. The foundations of prophecy: Society, authority, and the prophets; Qualities of Dogrib prophecy: Earlier prophets, Components of prophecy, Prophecy and Ink'on; Afterword

Ink'on: 4. One man's Ink'on ; 5. Aspects of Ink'on: Getting and becoming Ink'on; The animals: How the people got song and dance from the animals, Spider Ink'on, Raven Ink'on, Lego and Loche, Boss for the nets, Proscriptions imposed by animals; Hunters' Ink'on: Wedzitxa, Etana and the caribou, Hunters' Ink'on and proscriptions on women's food, Family food proscriptions; Curing with Ink'on: John Bighead cures Vital, Toby Bearlake requires "the truth" to cure a fornicator, The ethnologist's curing story boomerangs; Cree medicine: Cree Nahdi and Dogrib Ink'on, Boniface ; 6. "The highest men for Ink'on": One Foot in Heaven, alias One Foot in Hell; Slim Ekawi and the Eskimos; Gaxieh; Alphonse turns into a wolf; Ts'ocia; Godeh and the York Boat Brigade, 1962 version; Godeh and the York Boat Brigade, 1969 version; Another story about calling up the wind; How the Ink'on got the manager's mind; Got'ocia; Bad medicine: Old Marrow; The crippling of Beaverhook; Unintended harm from medicine ; 7.

Ink'on in play and legend: Ink'on in the hand game: Taiya and the Bear Lake man, One Foot in Heaven's father and the Bear Lake chief, Otendah ; "Playing" with Ink'on: Dzekwin, Tsinco; History into legend: Edzo and Akaitcho; Massacre at Mbes̆oti, How the Chipewyans killed the bull in the rock, The dragon in the rock, Flyman, The boy who changed into a frog, The boy with thunder medicine, Yambati, How the Barrens came to be and Went Inside Mountain got its name ; 8. Vital Thomas: a brief autobiography: Earliest memories; Childhood and youth; To the Barren Ground for caribou: A preview of Treaty (1920-1921); The years with the Police (1922-1936); The later years

Appendix: Dogrib leadership.

Notes:

"In cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-168) and index.

ISBN:

0-585-26644-1