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BL
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1022434
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b776804
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| Main Entry
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Johnston, Basil.
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| Title & Author
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Ojibway ceremonies /\ Basil Johnston ; illustrations by David Beyer.
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| Edition Statement
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Bison book ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Lincoln :: University of Nebraska Press,, [1990], ©1982.
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| Page. NO
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188 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0803275730
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: 9780803275737
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| Notes
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"A Bison book."
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Includes Ojibway text in appendices.
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| Contents
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The naming ceremony / Wauweendaussowin -- Tobacco offering / Peendaukoodjigewin -- The drum ceremony / Midewewegun -- The vision quest / Waussaeyaubindumowin -- The war path / Baunindobindidowin -- The marriage ceremony / Weedigaendiwin -- The society of medicine / Midewewin -- The society of the dawn / Waubunowin -- The ritual of the dead / Pagidaendijigewin -- The council / Zuguswediwin.
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| Abstract
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The Ojibway Indians were first encountered by the French early in the seventeenth century along the northern shores of Lakes Huron and Superior. By the time Henry Wadsworth Longfellow immortalized them in The Song of Hiawatha, they had dispersed over large areas of Canada and the United States, becoming known as the Chippewas in the latter. A rare and fascinating glimpse of Ojibway culture before its disruption by the Europeans is provided in Ojibway Ceremonies by Basil Johnston, himself an Ojibway who was born on the Parry Island Indian Reserve. Johnston focuses on a young member of the tribe and his development through participation in the many rituals so important to the Ojibway way of life, from the Naming Ceremony and the Vision Quest to the War Path, and from the Marriage Ceremony to the Ritual of the Dead. In the style of a tribal storyteller, Johnston preserves the attitudes and beliefs of forest dwellers and hunters whose lives were vitalized by a sense of the supernatural and of mystery. -- ‡c From back cover.
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| Subject
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Ojibwa Indians-- Rites and ceremonies.
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Ojibwa Indians-- Rites and ceremonies.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.54
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| LC Classification
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PS8331.7.O4O35 1990
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E99.C6J638 1990
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