Traditional Narratives Of The Rock Cree Indians
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Author | : Robert Brightman |
Publisher | : University of Regina Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780889771956 |
First published in 1980 by the Canadian Museum of Civilization, this study presents narratives from different genres of Rock Cree oral literature in northwestern Manitoba together with interpretive and comparative commentary. The collection comprises narratives of the trickster-transformer Wisahkicahk, animal-human characters, spirit guardians, the wihtikow or cannibal monster, humorous experiences, sorcery, and early encounters with Catholicism.
Author | : Robert A. Brightman |
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Release | : 1988 |
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Author | : Robert A. Brightman |
Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1772822779 |
Narratives from different genres of Rock Cree oral literature in northwestern Manitoba, together with interpretive and comparative commentary are presented.
Author | : Canadian Ethnology Service |
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Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : Robert Brightman |
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Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Cree Indians |
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Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Arikara Indians |
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Until the late eighteenth century the Arikaras were one of the largest and most influential Indian groups on the northern plains. For centuries they have lived along the Missouri River, first in present South Dakota, later in what is now North Dakota. Today they share the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota with the Mandans and Hidatsas. Although their postcontact history and aspects of their culture are well documented, Douglas R. Parks's monumental four-volume work Traditional Narratives of the Arikara Indians represents the first comprehensive attempt to describe and record their language and literary traditions. Volumes 1 and 2 present transcriptions of 156 oral narratives in Arikara and include literal interlinear English translations. Volumes 3 and 4 contain free English translations of those narratives, making available for the first time a broad, representative group of Arikara oral traditions that will be invaluable not only to anthropologists and folklorists but to everyone interested in American Indian life and literature. The narratives cover the entire range of traditional stories found in the historical and literary tradition of the Arikara people, who classify their stories into two categories, true stories and tales. Here are myths of ancient times, legends of power bestowed, historical narratives, and narratives of mysterious incidents that affirm the existence today of supernatural power in the world, along with tales of the trickster Coyote and stories of the risque Stuwi and various other animals. In addition, there are accounts of Arikara ritualism: prayers and descriptions of how personal names are bestowed and how the Death Feast originated.
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Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780803236950 |
Until the late eighteenth century the Arikaras were one of the largest and most influential Indian groups on the northern plains. For centuries they have lived along the Missouri River, first in present South Dakota, later in what is now North Dakota. Today they share the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota with the Mandans and Hidatsas. Although their postcontact history and aspects of their culture are well documented, Douglas R. Parks's monumental four-volume work Traditional Narratives of the Arikara Indians represents the first comprehensive attempt to describe and record their language and literary traditions. Volumes 1 and 2 present transcriptions of 156 oral narratives in Arikara and include literal interlinear English translations. Volumes 3 and 4 contain free English translations of those narratives, making available for the first time a broad, representative group of Arikara oral traditions that will be invaluable not only to anthropologists and folklorists but to everyone interested in American Indian life and literature. The narratives cover the entire range of traditional stories found in the historical and literary tradition of the Arikara people, who classify their stories into two categories, true stories and tales. Here are myths of ancient times, legends of power bestowed, historical narratives, and narratives of mysterious incidents that affirm the existence today of supernatural power in the world, along with tales of the trickster Coyote and stories of the risque Stuwi and various other animals. In addition, there are accounts of Arikara ritualism: prayers and descriptions of how personal names are bestowed and how the Death Feast originated.
Author | : Robert Alain Brightman |
Publisher | : Berkeley : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520070530 |
"An outstanding contribution to theory and ethnology of hunter-gatherers. . . . It may be the most important synthesis of Algonquian ethnology that we have."--Richard J. Preston, McMaster University
Author | : Maureen Matthews |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2017-01-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 144262244X |
Naamiwan’s Drum follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. This drum, and forty other artefacts, were given away by a Canadian museum to an American Anishinaabe group that had no family or community connections to the collection. Many years passed before the drum was returned to the family and only of the artefacts were ever returned to the museum. Maureen Matthews takes us through this astonishing set of events from multiple perspectives, exploring community and museum viewpoints, visiting the ceremonial group leader in Wisconsin, and finally looking back from the point of view of the drum. The book contains a powerful Anishinaabe interpretive perspective on repatriation and on anthropology itself. Containing fourteen beautiful colour illustrations, Naamiwan’s Drum is a compelling account of repatriation as well as a cautionary tale for museum professionals.
Author | : Arnold Krupat |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780803277861 |
The Turn to the Native is a timely account of Native American literature and the critical writings that have grown up around it. Arnold Krupat considers racial and cultural “essentialism,” the ambiguous position of non-Native critics in the field, cultural “sovereignty” and “property,” and the place of Native American culture in a so-called multicultural era. Chapters follow on the relationship of Native American culture to postcolonial writing and postmodernism. Krupat comments on the recent work of numerous Native writers. The final chapter, “A Nice Jewish Boy among the Indians,” presents the author’s effort to balance his Jewish and working-class heritage, his adherence to Western “critical” ideals, and his ongoing loyalty to the values of Native cultures.