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Living with animals : Ojibwe spirit powers
- Title
- Living with animals : Ojibwe spirit powers / Michael Pomedli.
- Author
- Pomedli, Michael M.
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
- ©2014
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Details
- Description
- xli, 335 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- 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.--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Ojibwa Indians > Religion
- Ojibwa Indians > Medicine
- Ojibwa Indians > Rites and ceremonies
- Midéwiwin
- Animals > Religious aspects
- Animals > Symbolic aspects
- Midewiwin
- Ojibwa (Indiens) > Religion
- Ojibwa (Indiens) > Médecine
- Ojibwa (Indiens) > Rites et cérémonies
- Animaux > Aspect religieux
- Ojibwa
- Tiere
- Zeremonie
- Spiritualität
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-328) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The Grand Medicine Society, the Midewiwin -- 'Paths of the Spirit': moral values in the writings of four nineteenth-century Ojibwe in the spirit of the Midewiwin -- Otter, the playful slider -- Owls: images and voices in the Ojibwe and Midewiwin worlds -- Omnipresent and ambivalent bears -- Water creatures -- Thunderbirds.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-332
- ISBN
- 9781442647015 (cloth)
- 1442647019 (cloth)
- 9781442614796 (paper)
- 144261479X (paper)
- LCCN
- 2014397852
- OCLC
- 842499923
- Author
- Pomedli, Michael M., author.
- Title
- Living with animals : Ojibwe spirit powers / Michael Pomedli.
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-328) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-332