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#1139198 in Books Basil Johnston 1996-06-21 1996-06-21Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.00 x .59 x 5.31l; .67 #File Name: 0060927356272 pagesISBN13: 9780060927356Condition: NewNotes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Thank You Basil Johnston!!!By Cheryl SavageauThis is a necessary reading if you are interested in Anishnaabe (Ojibway; Chippewa) culture and survival. Johnston tells us what Manitous are; how they've been mis-perceived and suppressed by Euro-Americans; and the importance of the stories to the survival of the Anishnaabe nation. He gives a chapter to each of the major manitous; telling their stories on the page; so they are available for those not hearing them on winter nights; or at gatherings. I am Abenaki; and so related to the Anishnaabe; with similar stories and way of being in the world. I have re-read this book every time I teach Love Medicine; Tracks or other book by Louise Erdrich. Wliwni.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Vividly tells the Story of the Ojibway PeoplesBy PWThis book is spell-binding. It captures the lore of native Americans in the form of nuanced fables. Most vividly it describes the blessed lack of hierarchy in the relationships between man/woman/animal - possibly too between man and Manitou (spirit). Equality and respect describe how the Ojibway culture works. Towards the end of the book there is a story about the white man's betrayal of the native Americans - describing how an oppressive hierarchy dehumanizes the English settlers enabling them to turn against their Indian hosts in a most brutal fashion. You see the Anglo culture from the vantage point of an outsider.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Expansive and Thought-ProvokingBy Dean A StrangJohnston assembles stories from the oral traditions of his people; in a scholarly but very accessible way. He wisely draws on several sources for most; if not all; of the stories; which necessarily are mutable because they come down to us orally in the main. The book gives a valuable glimpse of a rich culture parallel to; but little recognized by; the culture dominant in North America for the last two centuries or so. In a broad way; the flood stories and some of the other themes remind readers again of the near universality of many human myths and efforts to explain the physical world around us; and to reconcile ourselves with it.
