Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River
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Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River

A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in Conversation

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River

A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in Conversation

About this book

In Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River Jennifer S. H. Brown presents the dozens of stories and memories that A. Irving Hallowell recorded from Adam (Samuel) Bigmouth, son of Ochiipwamoshiish (Northern Barred Owl), at Little Grand Rapids in the summers of 1938 and 1940. The stories range widely across the lives of four generations of Anishinaabeg along the Berens River in Manitoba and northwestern Ontario. In an open and wide-ranging conversation, Hallowell discovered that Bigmouth was a vivid storyteller as he talked about the eight decades of his own life and the lives of his father, various relatives, and other persons of the past. Bigmouth related stories about his youth, his intermittent work for the Hudson's Bay Company, the traditional curing of patients, ancestral memories, encounters with sorcerers, and contests with cannibalistic windigos. The stories also tell of vision-fasting experiences, often fraught gender relations, and hunting and love magic—all in a region not frequented by Indian agents and little visited by missionaries and schoolteachers. With an introduction and rich annotations by Brown, a renowned authority on the Upper Berens Anishinaabeg and Hallowell's ethnography, Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River is an outstanding primary source for both First Nations history and the oral literature of Canada's Ojibwe peoples.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Glossary of Ojibwe Personal Names Appearing in the Text
  10. Map of the World of Adam Bigmouth
  11. Prologue
  12. 1. Boyhood Memories
  13. 2. Working for the Hudson’s Bay Company
  14. 3. Dream Experiences
  15. 4. Curing, Helping, Love Medicine, and an Old Man’s Jealousy
  16. 5. Northern Barred Owl, Man of Many Powers
  17. 6. Gender, Power, and Incest
  18. 7. The Challenges and Risks of Being Female
  19. 8. Bad Medicine and Old Men’s Threats
  20. 9. Starvation Threatened and Real
  21. 10. Encounters and Contests with Windigos
  22. 11. Human Beings Made into Windigos
  23. 12. The Curing of Windigos
  24. 13. The Costs of Mockery and Cruelty
  25. 14. Magical Medicines and Powers
  26. Afterword
  27. References
  28. Index
  29. About Jennifer S. H. Brown
  30. Series List
  31. Illustrations