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The trail of Nenaboozhoo and other creation stories / Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch ; edited by Christi Belcourt ; Anishinaabemowin translations, Mary Elizabeth Wemigwans [and eight others].
Title:
The trail of Nenaboozhoo and other creation stories / Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch ; edited by Christi Belcourt ; Anishinaabemowin translations, Mary Elizabeth Wemigwans [and eight others].
ISBN:
9781928120193
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Publication Information:
Neyaashiinigmiing, ON : Kegedonce Press, [2019]

©2020
Physical Description:
147 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Contents:
Foreword / by Isaac Murdoch -- The birth of Nenaboozhoo -- Nenaboozhoo and the wolf = Nenaboozhoo miinwaa maʹiingan -- Nenaboozhoo and the serpents -- Nenaboozhoo and the Great Flood = Nenaboozhoo miinwaa Gchi-mooshkaʹang -- Nenaboozhoo creates the spirit world -- Jiibayaboos = Jiibayaboos -- Nenaboozhoo and the Great Flood of Lake Huron -- Nenaboozhoo and naadowe ojiibik -- How the nmepin (ginger) got its name = Nmepin gaa zhi waawiinhzod -- Nenaboozhoo and the walleye = Nenaboozhoo miinwaa ogaa -- Nenaboozhoo and the poplar tree = Nenaboozhoo wiinwaa zaade mtig -- Black spots on the birch tree = E oonji pasaanhzawaat giw wiigwaasak -- Fish skin window = Giigoonh zhagʹaay aadzookaan -- Traditional teaching = Naadiziwin kinoomaagewin -- The stranger with the big ears -- Burial sites -- Nenaboozhoo leaves the Anishinaabek = Nenaboozhoo nganaan Anishinaaben -- Ten men fasting : when Nenaboozhoo left = Ten men fasting : mkadekewag mdaaswi niniwak -- Nenaboozhoo and Anishinaabe education -- Nenaboozhoo miinwaa Anishinaabe kendaasowin -- Other origin stories. How the chipmunk got its stripes : the origin of sickness and cures ; The origin of the shaking tent (jiizikaan) = Gaa-binjigaadek jiizikaan -- Great fisher story = Gchi odjiik dbaadjimowin.
Summary:
"This collection presents legends of Nenaboozhoo, the Ojibway creator spirit, along with other creation stories, sacred stories which were transcribed from the oral storytelling of Isaac Murdoch. The Trail of Nenaboozhoo and Other Creation Stories is a book of art and storytelling that preserve the legends of the Anishinaabe people. The stories are accompanied by strikingly beautiful illustrations, in the style of Ojibway pictographs, by revered Indigenous artists Isaac Murdoch and Christi Belcourt."-- Provided by publisher.
Language Note:
Some stories in English only; most stories in Anishinaabemowin translation with original English on facing page.
OCLC Number:
on1096494040
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