Memories, Myths, and Dreams of an Ojibwe Leader 9780773576537
In the 1930s, Chief William Berens shared with anthropologist A. Irving Hallowell a remarkable history of his life, as w
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Table of contents :
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I: Introduction
PART II: Reminiscences of Chief William Berens: “A Place in Your Mind for Them All”
Introduction
Childhood Memories
Mission and Treaty at Berens River
Hunting and Travelling with My Father
Helping to Survey Lake Winnipeg, 1886
Fishing and Hauling on the Lake
Working for the HBC, Berens River
Surveying up the Berens River: Little Grand Rapids and Pikangikum, 1888
Back to HBC Service
Return to the Fishing Business
Bargaining over Fish
Getting Engaged, and Travelling Again to Selkirk
Working for Inspector McColl, 1897
A Mysterious Leg Injury
Home for a Cure
To Selkirk, Emerson, and the States
Travelling with Agent Short
Marriage and a Winter Trip to Selkirk, 1899
To Cross Lake and Norway House with Agent Short
To Selkirk Again
Two Frightening Experiences
In Charge at Poplar River
Fishing and Free Trading, 1903–1904: Cat and Mouse
PART III: Dibaajimowinan, Stories and Dreams for Living
Introduction
MISDEEDS AND CONSEQUENCES
1 Murder Followed by a Daughter’s Sickness
2 Teasing and Retaliation: The Rolling Head
3 “The Animals Know When They Are Not Used Right”
4 The Boys Who Tormented the Pelicans
THE DREAMED ONES: CHALLENGES, DANGER, GIFTS, AND THE POWER OF THE MIND
5 The Medicine Stone
6 The Steer with Metal-Tipped Horns
7 The Boy in the Red Tuque
8 Memengwécī, The Man in the Rock
9 A Fight with Mīcīpījìu, the Water Lion
10 The Priests and the Furnace
LOVE MEDICINE, COURTSHIP, AND CROSS-COUSIN JOKING
11 A Love Charm at Pikangikum, 1888
12 Love Magic Captures a Girl (and Her Husband)
13 Dreaming of “The Girl Who Will Be Your Wife”
14 “Of Course You Can Joke with Kinim”
SOUNDS AND SIGHTINGS IN WAKING LIFE
15 The Pawáganak of Yellow Legs Defeat a Wíndīgo
16 A Wíndīgo Voice in Summer
17 A Wíndīgo Winter Gale
18 Rescuing a Woman Wíndīgo
19 Hearing Pagak
20 Giant Frog Tracks
21 A Giant Snake
AUSPICIOUS DREAMS OF TRAVEL AND HUNTING
22 Otters and River Rescue
23 The Girls and the Fisher
24 Meeting a Man with Money
FORESHADOWINGS OF LOSS
25 An Apparition, Poplar River, 1900
26 “My Time Has Not Yet Come”
A CHALLENGE TO NARRATIVE CATEGORIES
27 The Boy and the Trout
Commentary: “The Boy and the Trout” and the Problem of Categories
PART IV: Aadizookaanag, Myths
Introduction
CREATIONS AND RECREATIONS
1 The Birth of the Winds, Flint, and the Great Hare
2 South Wind Enters a Contest with His Brother, North Wind
3 The Origin of Summer
4 Wisαkedjak and the Water Lions
5 Aásī
OTHER-THAN-HUMAN BEINGS AND HUMANS: BLESSINGS AND STRUGGLES
6 Mätcīkīwis
7 Mikīnäk, Big Turtle Marries a Widow
8 Misabe
9 Wisαkedjak Flies with the Geese
10 Wisαkedjak Discovers Women
11 Four Men Visit Wisαkedjak and Have Their Wishes Granted
HUMANS AND ANIMALS: USING ONE’S POWER TO SAVE, KILL, OR SURVIVE
12 Rolling Head
13 Big Mosquito
14 The Bear, the Hare, and the Lynx
15 The Wolf and the Wolverine
HUMANS AGAINST CANNIBALS
16 The Eleven Brothers
17 Wémtigóze
Afterword
Appendix: Thunder Bird by A. Irving Hallowell
Notes
References
Index
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