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Book

The Mishomis book : the voice of the Ojibway

Call Number

  • J 398.2 BENT (CEN)

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Edition

First University of Minnesota Press edition.

Publication Information

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press ; Hayward, WI : Indian Country Communications, 2010.

Physical Description

v, 114 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Summary

Recounts the legends, customs, and history of the Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin.

Notes

Cover title.

Originally published: St. Paul, Minn. : Indian Country Press, ©1979.

Contents

  • The Ojibway creation story
  • Original man walks the earth
  • Original man and his grandmother No-ko'-mis
  • The Earth's first people
  • The great flood
  • Waynaboozhoo and the search for his father
  • Waynaboozhoo and his return to the people
  • The seven grandfathers and the little boy
  • The old man and the first midewiwin ceremony
  • The clan system
  • The pipe and the eagle
  • The sweat lodge
  • The seven fires
  • The migration of the Anishinabe
  • Stepping into modern history.

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