Ojibwe stories from the Upper Berens River : A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in conversation / edited and with an introduction by Jennifer S.H. Brown.

" In Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River Jennifer S. H. Brown presents the dozens of stories and memories that A. Irving Hallowell recorded from Adam (Samuel) Bigmouth, son of Ochiipwamoshiish (Northern Barred Owl), at Little Grand Rapids in the summer of 1938 and 1940. The stories range...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Bigmouth, Adam (Author), Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 (Author)
Other Authors:	Brown, Jennifer S. H., 1940- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln, NE : co-published by The University of Nebraska Press and the American Philosophical Society, [2018]
Series:	New visions in Native American and indigenous studies.
Subjects:	Bigmouth, Adam > Family. Ojibwa Indians > Folklore. Ojibwa Indians > History. Ojibwa Indians > Manitoba > Berens River Valley > Biography. Ojibwa mythology. Berens River (First Nation) > History. Folklore. Biographies. History.

Table of 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.

Ojibwe stories from the Upper Berens River : A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in conversation / edited and with an introduction by Jennifer S.H. Brown.

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