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Âh-âyîtaw isi ê-kî-kiskêyihtahkik maskihkiy / told by Alice Ahenakew ; edited, translated and with a glossary by H. C. Wolfart & Freda Ahenakew.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ahenakew, Alice, 1912- author.
- Series:
- Publications of the Algonquian Text Society.
- Publications of the Algonquian Text Society ; 0829-755X
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cree language--Texts.
- Cree language.
- Cree Indians--Biography.
- Cree Indians.
- Cree Indians--Medicine.
- Cree language--Dictionaries--English.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 314 p. : map, ports. ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Manitoba, Canada : The University of Manitoba Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Born in 1912, Alice Ahenakew was brought up in a traditional Cree community in north-central Saskatchewan. As a young woman, she married Andrew Ahenakew, a member of the prominent Saskatchewan family, who later became an Anglican clergyman and a prominent healer. Alice Ahenakew's personal reminiscences include stories of her childhood, courtship and marriage, as well as an account of the 1928 influenza epidemic and encounters with a windigo. The centrepiece of this book is the fascinating account of Andrew Ahenakewís bear vision, through which he received healing powers. Written in original Cree text with a full English translation, They Knew both Sides of Medicine also includes an introduction discussing the historical background of the narrative and its style and rhetorical structure, as well as a complete Cree-English glossary.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Case Histories of Living Practice
- Anglican Priest and Cree Healer
- Coping with a Windigo and the Great Epidemic
- Courtship and Marriage
- A Tour of England
- The Priest's Bear Medicine
- Strange New World
- Good Times in a Hard Life
- A Throw-away Society
- An Ungodly Smell
- Facing the Other
- Powers of Good and Evil
- Escaping a Windigo and Starvation
- Seeking Refuge
- A Dreadful Curse (First Telling)
- A Dreadful Curse (Second Telling)
- Commentary and Notes
- Cree-English Glossary
- Glossary
- English Index to the Glossary
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613090614
- 9781283090612
- 1283090619
- 9780887553103
- 0887553109
- OCLC:
- 1412009321
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