The Mishomis book : the voice of the Ojibway

Author

Edward Benton-Banai

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.