Ojibway ceremonies
Fiction. Life story of Mishi-Waub-Kaikaik (Great White Falcon) is used to describe the ceremonies of precontact Ojibways.
Read More ↓Title Statements
- Full title :Ojibway ceremonies / Basil Johnston ; illustrations by David Beyer.
Summary
Fiction. Life story of Mishi-Waub-Kaikaik (Great White Falcon) is used to describe the ceremonies of precontact Ojibways.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:1987, c1982.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):McClelland and Stewart
- Place of Publication:Toronto
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1987, c1982.
Notes
Includes some text in Ojibwa.
The Physical Object
- Description:188 p. : : ill. ; : 23 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0771044453, 9780771044458
- oclc:ocm18641582
- LC Classification:PR9199.3.J597
- Dewey Decimal:C813/.54
Table of Contents
List of Place Names -- The Naming ceremony = Wauweendaussowin -- Tobacco Offering = Peendaukoodjigewin -- The Drum ceremony = Midewewegun -- The Vision quest [visionquest] = 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 -- Appendices: Petitions of the Midewewin [or Midewiwin] -- Petitions of the Waubunowin -- Invocation before Council.
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