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Telling our stories : Omushkego legends and histories from Hudson Bay / Louis Bird ; edited by Jennifer S.H. Brown, Paul W. DePasquale and Mark F. Ruml ; with contributions by Roland Bohr, Anne Lindsay, and Donna G. Sutherland.
- Title
- Telling our stories : Omushkego legends and histories from Hudson Bay / Louis Bird ; edited by Jennifer S.H. Brown, Paul W. DePasquale and Mark F. Ruml ; with contributions by Roland Bohr, Anne Lindsay, and Donna G. Sutherland.
- Author
- Bird, Louis.
- Publication
- [Peterborough, Ont.] : Broadview press, [2005]
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- Description
- 269 p. : ill., maps, port.; 23 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Telling our stories: Omushkego legends & histories from Hudson Bay
- Subject
- Cree Indians > Hudson Bay Region > Folklore
- Tales > Hudson Bay Region
- Legends > Hudson Bay Region
- Cree Indians > Hudson Bay Region > History
- Cris (Indiens) > Hudson, Région de la baie d' > Folklore
- Contes > Hudson, Région de la baie d'
- Cris (Indiens) > Hudson, Région de la baie d' > Histoire
- Cree Indians > James Bay Region > Folklore
- Tales > James Bay Region
- Cree Indians > James Bay Region > History
- Genre/Form
- Folklore
- History
- Anthologie.
- Folklore.
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-258).
- Contents
- An Omushkego storyteller and his book -- "Now, the question of creation" : stories about beginnings and the world before we came -- Mi-te-win : stories of Shamanism and survival -- Mi-Tew power : stories of Shamanic showdowns -- Omens, mysteries, and first encounters -- "The wailing clouds" (Pa-so-way-yan-nask chi-pe-ta-so-win) -- Arrows and thunder sticks : technologies old and new -- Mi-te-wi-win versus Christianity : grand Sophia's story -- Conclusion: problems and hopes.
- ISBN
- 1551115808
- OCLC
- 60739388
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library