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The Mishomis book : the voice of the Ojibway / by Edward Benton-Banai.

By: Publisher: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press ; Hayward, WI : Indian Country Communications, 2010Copyright date: ©1988Edition: First University of Minnesota Press editionDescription: v, 114 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0816673829
  • 9780816673827
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 398.2089
LOC classification:
  • E99 .C6 B44 2010
Contents:
The Ojibway creation story -- Original man walks the earth -- Original man and his grandmother No-ko'-mis -- The Earth's first people -- The great flood -- Waynaboozhoo and the search for his father -- Waynaboozhoo and his return to the people -- The seven grandfathers and the little boy -- The old man and the first midewiwin ceremony -- The clan system -- The pipe and the eagle -- The sweat lodge -- The seven fires -- The migration of the Anishinabe -- Stepping into modern history.
Summary: Recounts the legends, customs, and history of the Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin.Other editions: Benton-Banai, Edward, 1934- Mishomis book.

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Originally published: St. Paul, Minn. : Indian Country Press, c1979.

The Ojibway creation story -- Original man walks the earth -- Original man and his grandmother No-ko'-mis -- The Earth's first people -- The great flood -- Waynaboozhoo and the search for his father -- Waynaboozhoo and his return to the people -- The seven grandfathers and the little boy -- The old man and the first midewiwin ceremony -- The clan system -- The pipe and the eagle -- The sweat lodge -- The seven fires -- The migration of the Anishinabe -- Stepping into modern history.

Recounts the legends, customs, and history of the Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin.

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