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Sounding thunder : the stories of Francis Pegahmagabow

Title: Sounding thunder : the stories of Francis Pegahmagabow / Brian D. McInnes ; foreword by Waubgeshig Rice.
Author: McInnes, Brian D.
Publication: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2016]

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Pegahmagabow, Francis, 1891-1952.

Description

xvi, 221 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"Francis Pegahmagabow (1889-1952), a member of the Ojibwe nation, was born in Shawanaga, Ontario. Enlisting at the onset of the First World War, he became the most decorated Canadian Indigenous soldier for bravery and the most accomplished sniper in North American military history. After the war, Pegahmagabow settled in Wasauksing, Ontario. He served his community as both chief and councillor and belonged to the Brotherhood of Canadian Indians, an early national Indigenous political organization. Francis proudly served a term as Supreme Chief of the National Indian Government, retiring from office in 1950. Francis Pegahmagabow's stories describe many parts of his life and are characterized by classic Ojibwe narrative. They reveal aspects of Francis's Anishinaabe life and worldview. Interceding chapters by Brian McInnes provide valuable cultural, spiritual, linguistic, and historic insights that give a greater context and application for Francis's words and world. Presented in their original Ojibwe as well as in English translation, the stories also reveal a rich and evocative relationship to the lands and waters of Georgian Bay. In Sounding Thunder, Brian McInnes provides new perspective on Pegahmagabow and his experience through a unique synthesis of Ojibwe oral history, historical record, and Pegahmagabow family stories."

Series Statement

American Indian studies series

Uniform Title

American Indian studies series (East Lansing, Mich.)

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies.
Folklore.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-216) and index.

Contents

Stories as a means of understanding life -- Indigenous life in the Georgian Bay -- Wind, rock, and water: maps and names at Wasauksing and Shawanaga -- Language, culture, and story -- Learning from stories -- Family -- An Indian at war -- Community life -- The fourth day.

ISBN

9781611862256
1611862256

LCCN

2016040545

OCLC

ocn948339684
948339684
SCSB-9517259

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library