ISBN: 9781496204462

Description:

• 1 online resource.
• text file

Other Title: A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in conversation

Notes:

• Electronic book.
• Electronic reproduction. Lincoln Nebraska 2018 Available via World Wide Web.
• Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

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.

Control Number: 3166086

Series:

• New visions in Native American and Indigenous studies
• New visions in Native American and indigenous studies.

Subjects:

• Berens River (First Nation) -- History.
• Bigmouth, Adam -- Family.
• Ojibwe -- Folklore.
• Ojibwe -- History.
• Ojibwe -- Manitoba -- Berens River Valley -- Biography.
• Ojibwe -- Religion.

Genre:

• Biographies.
• Electronic books.

Other Authors:

• Brown, Jennifer S. H., 1940- author of introduction, etc, editor.
• Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974.
• OverDrive, Inc., distributor.
• Overdrive.