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Ojibwe stories from the Upper Berens River : A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in conversation / edited and with an introduction by Jennifer S. H. Brown.

Author/creator Bigmouth, Adam
Other author/creatorHallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974.
Other author/creatorBrown, Jennifer S. H., 1940-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Lincoln, Nebraska] : [The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska] ; co-published by the University of Nebraska Press and the American Philosophical Society, [2018]
Description1 online resource.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Portion of title A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in conversation
Series New visions in Native American and Indigenous studies
Contents Map of the world of Adam Bigmouth -- Prologue: Adam declines to conjure, 1932 -- 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 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Source of descriptionDescription based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Issued in other formPrint version: Bigmouth, Adam, author. Ojibwe stories from the Upper Berens River [Lincoln, Nebraska] :[The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska] ; co-published by the University of Nebraska Press and the American Philosophical Society, [2018] 9781496202253
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2017036538
ISBN9781496204462 (epub)
ISBN9781496204479 (mobi)
ISBN9781496204486 ( pdf)

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