Ojibwe stories from the Upper Berens River : A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in conversation / / edited and with an introduction by Jennifer S. H. Brown

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910796511203321
• Autore: Bigmouth Adam
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lincoln, [Nebraska] : , : University of Nebraska Press : , : co-published with the American Philosophical Society, , 2018; ©2018
• ISBN: 1-4962-0446-8; 1-4962-0448-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies
• Disciplina: 977.00497333
• Soggetti: Ojibwa Indians; Ojibwa Indians - History; Ojibwa Indians - Manitoba - Berens River Valley; Ojibwa mythology; Berens River (First Nation) History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Map of the world of Adam Bigmouth -- Prologue: Little Grand Rapids, 1932: Adam declines to conjure -- Boyhood memories -- Working for the Hudson's Bay Company -- Dream experiences -- Curing, helping, love medicine, and an old man's jealousy -- Northern Barred Owl, man of many powers -- Gender, power, and the problematics of incest -- The challenges and risks of being female -- Bad medicine and old men's threats -- Starvation threatened and real -- Encounters and contests with windigos -- Human beings made into windigos -- The curing of windigos -- The costs of mockery and cruelty -- Magical medicines and powers -- Afterword: cousins and connections, power and succession, seeking life.