Living with Animals presents over 100 images from oral and written sources – including birch bark scrolls, rock art, stories, games, and dreams – in which animals appear as kindred beings, spirit powers, healers, and protectors.
Living with Animals presents over 100 images from oral and written sources – including birch bark scrolls, rock art, stories, games, and dreams – in which animals appear as kindred beings, spirit powers, healers, and protectors.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Preface * Challenging Western thought * The power of bear grease * Bears as persons * Transformative possibilities make definitive judgments difficult Introduction * Scope of this book * Geography of the Ojibwe * Goals and methodology * Use of terms; spellings, illustrations * Acknowledgements * Genesis of this book * Permissions Chapter One: The Grand Medicine Society, the Midewiwin * Membership * Wabeno, Jessakkid, and Midewiwin * Origins of the Midewiwin * Cosmic ordering * Nanabush * Health and the Midewiwin * Functions of the Midewiwin * Sound of the drum * Medicine bags * Birch bark scrolls, the lodge, teachings, ceremonies * Midewiwin and rock art * Bear, the “guiding spirit of the Midewiwin” * Megis/shell * Midewiwin and leadership Chapter Two: “Paths of the Spirit”: Moral Values in the Writings of Four 19 th-Century Ojibwe in the Spirit of the Midewiwin * Peter Jones: Like the “red squirrel” who stores nuts, store works of the Great Spirit * Andrew J. Blackbird: “The Great Spirit is looking upon thee continually” * George Copway: “I am one of Nature’s children.” * William Whipple Warren: ”There is much yet to be learned from the wild and apparently simple son of the forest” Chapter Three: Otter: the Playful Slider * Physical otter * Otter as representational * Otter as patterned * Otter and Ojibwe standards of life Chapter Four: Owls: Images and Voices in the Ojibwe and Midewiwin World * Classification and characteristics of owls * Owl as bad luck, bad medicine * Owl as protector and healer * Owl as a teacher of altruism * Owl and directions, winds and seasons * Owl and the dead * Owl and conservation * Owl and origin of day and night * Representations of owl Chapter Five: Omnipresent and Ambivalent Bears * Bears’ anatomy, physiology, and behavior * Ojibwe relationships with bears * Representations of bear in ceremonial performances * Near identity of bears and Ojibwe * Bear in the Midewiwin ceremonies * Totems/dodems, clans * Evil bears * Bear as archshadow * Bear as celestial * Bears and visions of sound * Bear as medicine and healer: following the bear path * Bear as patterned * Bear as child abductor * Bear as environmental guardian, mother * Games * Bear and greed Chapter Six: Water Creatures * Harmful creatures * Snakes and the afterlife * Helpful creatures * Women, water and snakes * Sea creatures and copper * Sea creatures and silver * The Little People Chapter Seven: Thunderbirds * Thunderbirds as givers * Interrelationships among humans, sky and water creatures * Birds and play * Thunderbirds and Ojibwe life * Thunderers as communicators and protectors * Thunderbird symbolism Conclusion Appendix A Leadership among Ojibwe Appendix B The sweat lodge Appendix C Bear as celestial Appendix D Ojibwe historical relationship with copper Appendix E Lacrosse and war Notes Bibliography Index
Preface * Challenging Western thought * The power of bear grease * Bears as persons * Transformative possibilities make definitive judgments difficult Introduction * Scope of this book * Geography of the Ojibwe * Goals and methodology * Use of terms; spellings, illustrations * Acknowledgements * Genesis of this book * Permissions Chapter One: The Grand Medicine Society, the Midewiwin * Membership * Wabeno, Jessakkid, and Midewiwin * Origins of the Midewiwin * Cosmic ordering * Nanabush * Health and the Midewiwin * Functions of the Midewiwin * Sound of the drum * Medicine bags * Birch bark scrolls, the lodge, teachings, ceremonies * Midewiwin and rock art * Bear, the “guiding spirit of the Midewiwin” * Megis/shell * Midewiwin and leadership Chapter Two: “Paths of the Spirit”: Moral Values in the Writings of Four 19 th-Century Ojibwe in the Spirit of the Midewiwin * Peter Jones: Like the “red squirrel” who stores nuts, store works of the Great Spirit * Andrew J. Blackbird: “The Great Spirit is looking upon thee continually” * George Copway: “I am one of Nature’s children.” * William Whipple Warren: ”There is much yet to be learned from the wild and apparently simple son of the forest” Chapter Three: Otter: the Playful Slider * Physical otter * Otter as representational * Otter as patterned * Otter and Ojibwe standards of life Chapter Four: Owls: Images and Voices in the Ojibwe and Midewiwin World * Classification and characteristics of owls * Owl as bad luck, bad medicine * Owl as protector and healer * Owl as a teacher of altruism * Owl and directions, winds and seasons * Owl and the dead * Owl and conservation * Owl and origin of day and night * Representations of owl Chapter Five: Omnipresent and Ambivalent Bears * Bears’ anatomy, physiology, and behavior * Ojibwe relationships with bears * Representations of bear in ceremonial performances * Near identity of bears and Ojibwe * Bear in the Midewiwin ceremonies * Totems/dodems, clans * Evil bears * Bear as archshadow * Bear as celestial * Bears and visions of sound * Bear as medicine and healer: following the bear path * Bear as patterned * Bear as child abductor * Bear as environmental guardian, mother * Games * Bear and greed Chapter Six: Water Creatures * Harmful creatures * Snakes and the afterlife * Helpful creatures * Women, water and snakes * Sea creatures and copper * Sea creatures and silver * The Little People Chapter Seven: Thunderbirds * Thunderbirds as givers * Interrelationships among humans, sky and water creatures * Birds and play * Thunderbirds and Ojibwe life * Thunderers as communicators and protectors * Thunderbird symbolism Conclusion Appendix A Leadership among Ojibwe Appendix B The sweat lodge Appendix C Bear as celestial Appendix D Ojibwe historical relationship with copper Appendix E Lacrosse and war Notes Bibliography Index
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