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 Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974.
Other author Brown, Jennifer S. H., 1940-
Format Electronic
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.
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Portion of title A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in conversation
SeriesNew 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.
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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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