The Manitous

The Manitous
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Publisher : Borealis Book
Total Pages : 247
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ISBN-10 : 0873514114
ISBN-13 : 9780873514118
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis The Manitous by : Basil Johnston

From the rich oral culture of his own Ojibway Indian heritage, Basil Johnston presents a collection of legends and tales depicting manitous, mystical beings who are divine and essential forces in the spiritual life of his people.

Ojibway Heritage

Ojibway Heritage
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Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Total Pages : 174
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ISBN-10 : 9781551995908
ISBN-13 : 1551995905
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Ojibway Heritage by : Basil Johnston

Rarely accessible beyond the limits of its people, Ojibway mythology is as rich in meaning and mystery, as broad, as deep, and as innately appealing as the mythologies of Greece, Rome, Egypt, and other civilizations. In Ojibway Heritage, Basil Johnston sets forth the broad spectrum of his people’s life, legends, and beliefs. Stories to be read, enjoyed, dwelt on, and freely interpreted, their authorship is perhaps most properly attributed to the tribal storytellers who have carried on the oral tradition which Basil Johnston records and preserves in this book.

Exploring North Manitou, South Manitou, High and Garden Islands of the Lake Michigan Archipelago

Exploring North Manitou, South Manitou, High and Garden Islands of the Lake Michigan Archipelago
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015071266772
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Exploring North Manitou, South Manitou, High and Garden Islands of the Lake Michigan Archipelago by : Robert H. Ruchhoft

For those who are looking to get-away-from-it-all camping & hiking summer vacation on four uninhabited Lake Michigan Islands, this book describes a delightful mixture of hikes along secluded beaches, through semi-wilderness forest, & sites of abandoned farms & ghost towns. North Manitou & South Manitou are part of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore while High & Garden Islands are administered by Michigan's Department of Natural Resources. Histories of the islands are included. Three of the four islands once had small towns & were farmed by nineteenth-century German & Scandanavian immigrants. One was the site of an early twentieth-century communal religious colony where the sexes lived separately. Another is rich in Indian lore with over 2,000 Indians buried there. Today, except for a few historic buildings & ranger residences, the islands are rapidly returning to wilderness.Included are detailed trail maps for each island & 230 photographs divided between historical prints & contemporary pictures. Trail information includes trail length, hiking time, points of interest along or near the trails. Also included are suggestions on what to bring, the best times to visit, how to get to each island & suggested hiking itineraries.

Ojibway Ceremonies

Ojibway Ceremonies
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 198
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0803275730
ISBN-13 : 9780803275737
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Ojibway Ceremonies by : Basil Johnston

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, theyøhad 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.

Manitou

Manitou
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Publisher : Inner Traditions
Total Pages : 400
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ISBN-10 : 0892810785
ISBN-13 : 9780892810789
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Manitou by : James W. Mavor, Jr.

In the summer of 1974 Byron Dix discovered in Vermont the first of many areas in New England believed to be ancient Native American ritual sites. Dix and coauthor James Mavor tell the fascinating story of the discovery and exploration of these many stone structures and standing stones, whose placement in the surrounding landscape suggests that they played an important role in celestial observation and shamanic ritual.

The Manitou

The Manitou
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Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 200
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781497631427
ISBN-13 : 1497631424
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis The Manitou by : Graham Masterton

An ancient vengeful spirit attempts to return through the body of a terrified young woman in this horror classic by an award-winning “master of the genre” (Rocky Mountain News). Phony psychic and conman Harry Erskine never really believed in the occult until Karen Tandy approached him with a rapidly growing tumor on her neck, complaining of dark and disturbing dreams. When the mass is revealed by doctors to contain something living, the stakes skyrocket—not only for Karen and Harry but for all humanity. Something terrible is returning from the shadows to which it has been confined for centuries—a Native American monstrosity determined to destroy every vestige of the white race that oppressed and preyed upon America’s Indians. And unless a motley group of ill-prepared defenders can harness an ancient native magic, there will be no stopping the malevolent shaman’s terrible rebirth—and no escaping the wholesale carnage it will engender. The Manitou introduced the great Graham Masterton to the canon of horror, instantly placing him among the genre’s elite. A longtime favorite for its bold originality, unrelenting creepiness, supernatural shocks, and otherworldly surprises that would have made H. P. Lovecraft proud, Masterton’s classic continues to stand tall alongside Stephen King’s Carrie, Peter Straub’s Ghost Story, and other unforgettable literary horror debuts.

The Birchbark House

The Birchbark House
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9780063064188
ISBN-13 : 0063064189
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis The Birchbark House by : Louise Erdrich

This National Book Award finalist by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich is the first installment in an essential nine-book series chronicling 100 years in the life of one Ojibwe family, and includes beautiful interior black-and-white artwork done by the author. She was named Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop. Omakayas and her family live on an island in Lake Superior. Though there are growing numbers of white people encroaching on their land, life continues much as it always has. But the satisfying rhythms of their life are shattered when a visitor comes to their lodge one winter night, bringing with him an invisible enemy that will change things forever—but that will eventually lead Omakayas to discover her calling. By turns moving and humorous, this novel is a breathtaking tour de force by a gifted writer. The beloved and essential Birchbark House series by Louise Erdrich includes The Birchbark House, The Game of Silence, The Porcupine Year, Chickadee, and Makoons.

Wonderful Power

Wonderful Power
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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 0814328431
ISBN-13 : 9780814328439
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Wonderful Power by : Susan R. Martin

This work examines the archaeological record of copper mining in the Lake Superior area.

Honour Earth Mother

Honour Earth Mother
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Publisher : Wiarton, Ont. : Kegedonce Press
Total Pages : 171
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ISBN-10 : 0973139617
ISBN-13 : 9780973139617
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Honour Earth Mother by : Basil Johnston

Indian School Days

Indian School Days
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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9780806192703
ISBN-13 : 0806192704
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Indian School Days by : Basil H. Johnston

This book is the humorous, bitter-sweet autobiography of a Canadian Ojibwa who was taken from his family at age ten and placed in Jesuit boarding school in northern Ontario. It was 1939 when the feared Indian agent visited Basil Johnston’s family and removed him and his four-year-old sister to St. Peter Claver’s school, run by the priests in a community known as Spanish, 75 miles from Sudbury. “Spanish! It was a word synonymous with residential school, penitentiary, reformatory, exile, dungeon, whippings, kicks, slaps, all rolled into one,” Johnston recalls. But despite the aching loneliness, the deprivation, the culture shock and the numbing routine, his story is engaging and compassionate. Johnston creates marvelous portraits of the young Indian boys who struggled to adapt to strange ways and unthinking, unfeeling discipline. Even the Jesuit teachers, whose flashes of humor occasionally broke through their stern demeanor, are portrayed with an understanding born of hindsight.