Author : Sara Balbin
Publisher : Holy Cow Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,57 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780982354506
A unique history of the survival of a tribal people, told through oral histories and portraits.
Author : Sara Balbin
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780930100414
Spirit of the Ojibwe is an intimate gathering of oral biographies and stunning color portraits of 32 Lac Courte Oreilles Indian elders painted by artist Sara Balbin. Their tribal history, told in story and image, is a compelling tale of how one people courageously adapted and triumphed over cultural oppression, broken government treaties, and the deliberate flooding of their reservation by the Wisconsin-Minnesota Power and Light Company. First settled in the Lac Courte Oreilles region of northwestern Wisconsin in the 1740s, the Lac Courte Oreilles tribe is today one of the most progressive native groups in the United States. This is a people who still live close to nature's rhythms, and these stories reveal their tribal history, traditions, migrations, spiritual practices, and clan structure. The tribal elders, such as James Pipe Mustache, are keepers of knowledge and never stop teaching. Mustache is one of many who were brought up in the original Indian way of the early 1900s, lived well into the modern age, and transmitted wisdom to today's elders or to anyone else who would listen patiently. Cuban-born visual artist Sara Balbin has for the past 25 years painted portraits of Ojibwe elders from the Lac Courte Oreilles Chippewa tribe. She operates Dragonfly Studio near Drummond, Wisconsin. Thelma Nayquonabe is currently the director of the Work-Based Learning Program at the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College. James R. Bailey is currently a reporter for News from Indian Country and Ojibwe Akiing, For seven years, he was the development director of WOJB, the Lac Courte Oreilles' 100,000-watt public radio station. David Scott Bisonette teaches Ojibwelanguage and culture and is currently interim division chair of the Native American studies program at the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College.
Author : Michael Pomedli
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 16,56 MB
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442667052
Within nineteenth-century Ojibwe/Chippewa medicine societies, and in communities at large, animals are realities and symbols that demonstrate cultural principles of North American Ojibwe nations. Living with Animals presents over 100 images from oral and written sources – including birch bark scrolls, rock art, stories, games, and dreams – in which animals appear as kindred beings, spirit powers, healers, and protectors. Michael Pomedli shows that the principles at play in these sources are not merely evidence of cultural values, but also unique standards brought to treaty signings by Ojibwe leaders. In addition, these principles are norms against which North American treaty interpretations should be reframed. The author provides an important foundation for ongoing treaty negotiations, and for what contemporary Ojibwe cultural figures corroborate as ways of leading a good, integrated life.
Author : Ma-Nee Chacaby
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 10,27 MB
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0887555039
A compelling, harrowing, but ultimately uplifting story of resilience and self-discovery. A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby’s story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism. As a child, Chacaby learned spiritual and cultural traditions from her Cree grandmother and trapping, hunting, and bush survival skills from her Ojibwa stepfather. She also suffered physical and sexual abuse by different adults, and in her teen years became alcoholic herself. At twenty, Chacaby moved to Thunder Bay with her children to escape an abusive marriage. Abuse, compounded by racism, continued, but Chacaby found supports to help herself and others. Over the following decades, she achieved sobriety; trained and worked as an alcoholism counsellor; raised her children and fostered many others; learned to live with visual impairment; and came out as a lesbian. In 2013, Chacaby led the first gay pride parade in Thunder Bay. Ma-Nee Chacaby has emerged from hardship grounded in faith, compassion, humour, and resilience. Her memoir provides unprecedented insights into the challenges still faced by many Indigenous people.
Author : Louise Erdrich
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 26,70 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0792257197
"An account of Louise Erdrich's trip through the lakes and islands of southern Ontario with her 18-month old baby and the baby's father, an Ojibwe spiritual leader and guide"--
Author : Paulette Jiles
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 31,86 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
In 1974, when Paulette Jiles was first sent by the CBC to work as a journalist in Big Trout Lake, a village without radio or television in remote northern Ontario, she didn't know a bush plane from a backpack. "North Spirit is based on the seven years Jiles spent working with the northern Cree and Ojibway peoples, who call themselves Anishinabe. This lyrical, witty and reflective book evokes a time when new technology is beginning to clash with the traditioinal culture. At its center is the author's search for the meaning of the remote and sometimes terrifying Oda-Ka-Daun, or Stern Paddler, who moves his cosmic vessel through the heavens. As she seeks to unravel this mystery, Jiles recounts her many adventures among the Anishinabe people and reveals the enduring legacy of their northern mythology.
Author : Alesha Halvorson
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 2016-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1515702405
"Explains Ojibwe history and highlights Ojibwe life in modern society"--
Author : Mary Lyons
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,64 MB
Release : 2018-10-19
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780986198090
Great-Grandmother Mary Lyons, Ojibwe Elder from Minnesota, is a spiritual advisor, storyteller and wisdom keeper. She travels and teaches internationally with the Indigenous Grandmothers of the Sacred We. She is the founder of the Minnesota Coalition on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, an Indian Child Welfare Act Expert Witness and a Native American Family and Child Advocate. She was a keynote speaker at the Parliament of World Religions in Utah and at the People's Climate March in New York City in 2014. She is a winner of the Congressional Angels in Adoption Award, nominated by Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota. She currently serves as a 4-Core Grandmother Council member for the women's sobriety group Women of Wellbriety International, which she co-founded. Grandmother Mary was one of many Native children removed from her home and placed in an institution; she has first-hand experience the negative effects on children and families of alcohol and drug addiction. After her own recovery, guided by her ancestors, she has dedicated her life to helping others, including fostering and adopting many children with family difficulties, disabilities and fetal alcohol syndrome.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 43,84 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Legal briefs
ISBN :
Author : Dianna Good Sky
Publisher : GOOD SKY GLOBAL ENTERPRISES
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 17,13 MB
Release : 2021-01-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Growing up, I knew two things to be true: My dad was a drunk. Being an Indian was complicated. When I joined the Navy, these two ideas were cemented when my fellow sailors, after finding out that I was an American Indian, would ask me if I drank a lot or if I still lived in a TeePee. They were asking questions because that’s what they knew and I couldn’t blame them. I could only answer “no” to both. These questions, posed by my curious new friends, made me wish that I knew more about my background, about me. Dad tried to teach us the language, the culture, what it meant to be Ojibwe. But no one wants to learn from a drunken Indian, least of all, me. Then, in the winter of 1980, my dad nearly died. When he awoke, everything changed. This is his story. Warrior Spirit Rising is the inspiring true account of Gene Goodsky, as told through the eyes of his oldest daughter, Dianna. Gene was raised in the North Woods of Minnesota, on the tribal lands of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa. Surviving years of cultural genocide, racism, and the Vietnam War left him broken—battling severe PTSD and alcohol abuse. In this stunning tale of Native American perseverance, Good Sky unravels the history of her father, her family, and her people, and the near-death experience that would change their lives forever. With both wit and honesty, she explores the devastating loss of heritage that has impacted generations of Native Americans, and how the powerful choice to forgive can leave a legacy.
