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Ojibwe stories from the Upper Berens River
A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in conversation
xxxiii, 188 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illlustrations, map ; 24 cm.
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.
edited and with an introduction by Jennifer S.H. Brown.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-179) and index.
New visions in Native American and indigenous studies