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Title
Ojibway ceremonies (27641)
Physical 188 pages
Produced 1987
Distributor McClelland & Stewart (0816)
Dewey [Fic]
Collection Professional Library
Synopsis This collection of stories tells about the important occasions and ceremonies in the life of an Ojibway boy as he grows up. It provides a look at Ojibway culture before the arrival of Europeans.
Dimensions 23 cm.
ISBN# 0771044453
Pub. Loc. Toronto
Contents List of Place Names -The Naming ceremony = Wauweendaussowin —Tobacco Offering = Peendaukoodjigewin -The Drum ceremony = Midewewegun -The Vision quest = 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.
Notes Includes some text in Ojibwa. Companion to: Ojibway Heritage.
Stmt Resp Basil Johnston ; illustrations by David Beyer.
Subjects First Nations—Social life and customs—Fiction; Ojibway (First Nations people)—Rites and ceremonies—Fiction
Call# FN FIC JOH
Holdings
Book 1 copy

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