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"The Orders of the Dreamed" : George Nelson on Cree and northern Ojibwa religion and myth, 1823, Jennifer S.H. Brown, Robert Brightman

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Transcription of 1823 diary by a Hudson's Bay Company fur trader in northeastern Saskatchewan which discusses the religion and mythic themes of the northern Ojibway and Cree. Also includes two essays: On Nelson's text by Stan Cuthand and On the ethics of publishing historical documents by Emma La Rocque
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eng
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1 online resource (xii, 226 pages, [1] leaf of plates)
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This is a Read Alberta eBooks title
Contents
  • "North Wind/North""""Thunder""; ""Crazy Woman/Foolish, Mad, Jealous Woman/Folly/Jealousy""; ""Nay-han-nee-mis""; ""Mee-shaw-bose/Mi-shaw-bose""; ""Sun""; ""Moon""; ""Esculapius""; ""Sickness/Plague""; ""Strong Neck/Hercules""; ""Pike/Jackfish""; ""Loon""; ""Wolverine""; ""Flying Squirrel""; ""Bear""; ""Dog""; ""Snow""; ""Kingfisher""; ""Horse""; ""Ice""; ""Stone""; ""PART III: NORTHERN ALGONQUIAN RELIGIOUS AND MYTHIC THEMES AND PERSONAGES: CONTEXTS AND COMPARISONS""; ""Cosmogonic Myths and Beings from Lac la Ronge""; ""The Trickster-Transformer, Wīsahkecāhk""
  • "The Windigo""""Baiting a Windigo""; ""Sources and Forms of Windigo""; ""Windigo Dreams""; ""Windigo Possession, Lake Winnipeg""; ""A Windigo Execution""; ""Windigo Cures and Precautions""; ""Malignant Spirits""; ""Affinities and Origins""; ""Deviance, Confession, and Expiation""; ""Feasts""; ""Conjuring at Lac la Ronge, June 1823""; ""Dramatis Personae""; ""Key-shay-mani-to""; ""Kee-jick-oh-kay""; ""Wee-suck-a-jock""; ""Michi-Pichoux""; ""Sea Serpent""; ""O-may-me-thay-day-ace-cae-wuck""; ""Mermaid and Sea Man""; ""Mee-key-nock""; ""Bull or Buffaloe""; ""Pah-kack (Skeleton)""
  • "Pah-kack Feasts at Lac la Ronge""""Medicines and the Abode of ""Esculapius""""; ""Songs: Their Transmission and Uses""; ""Conjuring against Starvation, Wisconsin, 1804""; ""The Soul""; ""Soul-darting""; ""Sorcery for Protection and Revenge""; ""Sexual Sorcery""; ""Hunting Medicine""; ""Love Medicine""; ""Hunters Bewitched and Restored""; ""An Iroquois Hunter Bewitched""; ""Stories of Nay-han-nee-mis""; ""Man in his Natural State""; ""Skepticism, Belief, and Innovation""; ""Conjuring for a North West Company Gentleman""; ""The Lost Traveller and the Wolf Spirit""; ""Pursuit by a Pah-kack""
  • "Old Nick (Key-jick-oh-kay)""""Other Beings""; ""The Sun; Nelson's Dream""; ""Roots and Herbs""; ""The Manner of Conjuring""; ""The Spirits Enter: Their Names and Natures""; ""The Conjurors' Power""; ""A Cree Myth, 1823: The Birth of Wee-suck-a-jock and Mi-shaw-bose""; ""The Battle of Weesuckajock and the Water Lynxes""; ""The Making of the Land""; ""The Making of Human Beings""; ""The Son of Weesuckajock""; ""Sickness in Spirit Form: A Lac la Ronge Cree Account""; ""The Spirits' Gifts and Demands""; ""Encounters with Pah-kack (Skeleton)""; ""Sacrifices and Feasts for Pah-kack""
  • "Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""PART I: INTRODUCTION""; ""George Nelson""; ""Background, Career, and Writings""; ""Family and Childhood""; ""The Wisconsin Years""; ""The Lake Winnipeg Period""; ""A Decade of Changes""; ""The Lac la Ronge Phase""; ""Interpreting the Indians: Nelson's Frameworks and Dilemmas""; ""Editorial Procedures""; ""PART II: GEORGE NELSON'S LETTER-JOURNAL""; ""Conjuring at Lac la Ronge, December 1819""; ""Dreaming to Conjure and Predict""; ""The Spirits, their Shapes, and their Songs""; ""The Supreme Being""
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9780887554087
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http://calgarylibrary.cantookstation.com/resources/5bf33ce92357944608d2ef76
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"The Orders of the Dreamed" : George Nelson on Cree and northern Ojibwa religion and myth, 1823
Title
"The Orders of the Dreamed"
Title remainder
George Nelson on Cree and northern Ojibwa religion and myth, 1823
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Jennifer S.H. Brown, Robert Brightman
Creator
Contributor
Subject
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Language
eng
Summary
Transcription of 1823 diary by a Hudson's Bay Company fur trader in northeastern Saskatchewan which discusses the religion and mythic themes of the northern Ojibway and Cree. Also includes two essays: On Nelson's text by Stan Cuthand and On the ethics of publishing historical documents by Emma La Rocque
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digitized
Cataloging source
N
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1786-1859
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Nelson, George
Dewey number
299/.78
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • plates
Index
index present
LC call number
E99.C88
LC item number
N45 1988eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1950-
  • 1940-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Brightman, Robert Alain
  • Brown, Jennifer S. H.
  • Scholars Portal
Series statement
Manitoba studies in native history,
Series volume
3
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Nelson, George
  • Nelson, George
  • Ojibwa
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Ojibwa
  • Ojibwa
  • Cree
  • Cree
Label
"The Orders of the Dreamed" : George Nelson on Cree and northern Ojibwa religion and myth, 1823, Jennifer S.H. Brown, Robert Brightman
Link
http://calgarylibrary.cantookstation.com/resources/5bf33ce92357944608d2ef76
Instantiates
Publication
Note
This is a Read Alberta eBooks title
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • "North Wind/North""""Thunder""; ""Crazy Woman/Foolish, Mad, Jealous Woman/Folly/Jealousy""; ""Nay-han-nee-mis""; ""Mee-shaw-bose/Mi-shaw-bose""; ""Sun""; ""Moon""; ""Esculapius""; ""Sickness/Plague""; ""Strong Neck/Hercules""; ""Pike/Jackfish""; ""Loon""; ""Wolverine""; ""Flying Squirrel""; ""Bear""; ""Dog""; ""Snow""; ""Kingfisher""; ""Horse""; ""Ice""; ""Stone""; ""PART III: NORTHERN ALGONQUIAN RELIGIOUS AND MYTHIC THEMES AND PERSONAGES: CONTEXTS AND COMPARISONS""; ""Cosmogonic Myths and Beings from Lac la Ronge""; ""The Trickster-Transformer, Wīsahkecāhk""
  • "The Windigo""""Baiting a Windigo""; ""Sources and Forms of Windigo""; ""Windigo Dreams""; ""Windigo Possession, Lake Winnipeg""; ""A Windigo Execution""; ""Windigo Cures and Precautions""; ""Malignant Spirits""; ""Affinities and Origins""; ""Deviance, Confession, and Expiation""; ""Feasts""; ""Conjuring at Lac la Ronge, June 1823""; ""Dramatis Personae""; ""Key-shay-mani-to""; ""Kee-jick-oh-kay""; ""Wee-suck-a-jock""; ""Michi-Pichoux""; ""Sea Serpent""; ""O-may-me-thay-day-ace-cae-wuck""; ""Mermaid and Sea Man""; ""Mee-key-nock""; ""Bull or Buffaloe""; ""Pah-kack (Skeleton)""
  • "Pah-kack Feasts at Lac la Ronge""""Medicines and the Abode of ""Esculapius""""; ""Songs: Their Transmission and Uses""; ""Conjuring against Starvation, Wisconsin, 1804""; ""The Soul""; ""Soul-darting""; ""Sorcery for Protection and Revenge""; ""Sexual Sorcery""; ""Hunting Medicine""; ""Love Medicine""; ""Hunters Bewitched and Restored""; ""An Iroquois Hunter Bewitched""; ""Stories of Nay-han-nee-mis""; ""Man in his Natural State""; ""Skepticism, Belief, and Innovation""; ""Conjuring for a North West Company Gentleman""; ""The Lost Traveller and the Wolf Spirit""; ""Pursuit by a Pah-kack""
  • "Old Nick (Key-jick-oh-kay)""""Other Beings""; ""The Sun; Nelson's Dream""; ""Roots and Herbs""; ""The Manner of Conjuring""; ""The Spirits Enter: Their Names and Natures""; ""The Conjurors' Power""; ""A Cree Myth, 1823: The Birth of Wee-suck-a-jock and Mi-shaw-bose""; ""The Battle of Weesuckajock and the Water Lynxes""; ""The Making of the Land""; ""The Making of Human Beings""; ""The Son of Weesuckajock""; ""Sickness in Spirit Form: A Lac la Ronge Cree Account""; ""The Spirits' Gifts and Demands""; ""Encounters with Pah-kack (Skeleton)""; ""Sacrifices and Feasts for Pah-kack""
  • "Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""PART I: INTRODUCTION""; ""George Nelson""; ""Background, Career, and Writings""; ""Family and Childhood""; ""The Wisconsin Years""; ""The Lake Winnipeg Period""; ""A Decade of Changes""; ""The Lac la Ronge Phase""; ""Interpreting the Indians: Nelson's Frameworks and Dilemmas""; ""Editorial Procedures""; ""PART II: GEORGE NELSON'S LETTER-JOURNAL""; ""Conjuring at Lac la Ronge, December 1819""; ""Dreaming to Conjure and Predict""; ""The Spirits, their Shapes, and their Songs""; ""The Supreme Being""
Control code
9780887554087
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xii, 226 pages, [1] leaf of plates)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780887554087
Isbn Type
(electronic bk.)
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations (some color), maps., digital file.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction.
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
  • (OCoLC)830668339
  • (CaBNVSL)slc30668339
System details
  • Mode of access: World Wide Web
  • Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Label
"The Orders of the Dreamed" : George Nelson on Cree and northern Ojibwa religion and myth, 1823, Jennifer S.H. Brown, Robert Brightman
Link
http://calgarylibrary.cantookstation.com/resources/5bf33ce92357944608d2ef76
Publication
Note
This is a Read Alberta eBooks title
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • "North Wind/North""""Thunder""; ""Crazy Woman/Foolish, Mad, Jealous Woman/Folly/Jealousy""; ""Nay-han-nee-mis""; ""Mee-shaw-bose/Mi-shaw-bose""; ""Sun""; ""Moon""; ""Esculapius""; ""Sickness/Plague""; ""Strong Neck/Hercules""; ""Pike/Jackfish""; ""Loon""; ""Wolverine""; ""Flying Squirrel""; ""Bear""; ""Dog""; ""Snow""; ""Kingfisher""; ""Horse""; ""Ice""; ""Stone""; ""PART III: NORTHERN ALGONQUIAN RELIGIOUS AND MYTHIC THEMES AND PERSONAGES: CONTEXTS AND COMPARISONS""; ""Cosmogonic Myths and Beings from Lac la Ronge""; ""The Trickster-Transformer, Wīsahkecāhk""
  • "The Windigo""""Baiting a Windigo""; ""Sources and Forms of Windigo""; ""Windigo Dreams""; ""Windigo Possession, Lake Winnipeg""; ""A Windigo Execution""; ""Windigo Cures and Precautions""; ""Malignant Spirits""; ""Affinities and Origins""; ""Deviance, Confession, and Expiation""; ""Feasts""; ""Conjuring at Lac la Ronge, June 1823""; ""Dramatis Personae""; ""Key-shay-mani-to""; ""Kee-jick-oh-kay""; ""Wee-suck-a-jock""; ""Michi-Pichoux""; ""Sea Serpent""; ""O-may-me-thay-day-ace-cae-wuck""; ""Mermaid and Sea Man""; ""Mee-key-nock""; ""Bull or Buffaloe""; ""Pah-kack (Skeleton)""
  • "Pah-kack Feasts at Lac la Ronge""""Medicines and the Abode of ""Esculapius""""; ""Songs: Their Transmission and Uses""; ""Conjuring against Starvation, Wisconsin, 1804""; ""The Soul""; ""Soul-darting""; ""Sorcery for Protection and Revenge""; ""Sexual Sorcery""; ""Hunting Medicine""; ""Love Medicine""; ""Hunters Bewitched and Restored""; ""An Iroquois Hunter Bewitched""; ""Stories of Nay-han-nee-mis""; ""Man in his Natural State""; ""Skepticism, Belief, and Innovation""; ""Conjuring for a North West Company Gentleman""; ""The Lost Traveller and the Wolf Spirit""; ""Pursuit by a Pah-kack""
  • "Old Nick (Key-jick-oh-kay)""""Other Beings""; ""The Sun; Nelson's Dream""; ""Roots and Herbs""; ""The Manner of Conjuring""; ""The Spirits Enter: Their Names and Natures""; ""The Conjurors' Power""; ""A Cree Myth, 1823: The Birth of Wee-suck-a-jock and Mi-shaw-bose""; ""The Battle of Weesuckajock and the Water Lynxes""; ""The Making of the Land""; ""The Making of Human Beings""; ""The Son of Weesuckajock""; ""Sickness in Spirit Form: A Lac la Ronge Cree Account""; ""The Spirits' Gifts and Demands""; ""Encounters with Pah-kack (Skeleton)""; ""Sacrifices and Feasts for Pah-kack""
  • "Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""PART I: INTRODUCTION""; ""George Nelson""; ""Background, Career, and Writings""; ""Family and Childhood""; ""The Wisconsin Years""; ""The Lake Winnipeg Period""; ""A Decade of Changes""; ""The Lac la Ronge Phase""; ""Interpreting the Indians: Nelson's Frameworks and Dilemmas""; ""Editorial Procedures""; ""PART II: GEORGE NELSON'S LETTER-JOURNAL""; ""Conjuring at Lac la Ronge, December 1819""; ""Dreaming to Conjure and Predict""; ""The Spirits, their Shapes, and their Songs""; ""The Supreme Being""
Control code
9780887554087
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xii, 226 pages, [1] leaf of plates)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780887554087
Isbn Type
(electronic bk.)
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations (some color), maps., digital file.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction.
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
  • (OCoLC)830668339
  • (CaBNVSL)slc30668339
System details
  • Mode of access: World Wide Web
  • Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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