Book
Traditional Ojibwa religion and its historical changes
American Philosophical Society • 152 • Published In 1983 • Pages: x, 233
By: Vecsey, Christopher.
Abstract
This work describes and analyzes traditional Ojibwa religion and the changes it has undergone from the seventeenth century to approximately the late 1970s. The document contains an abundance of data on Christian missions among the Ojibwa, the Ojibwa social personality, soul beliefs, the afterlife, the MANITOS or spirits, mythology, puberty fasting and visions, disease, health, and medicine, religious practitioners. the MIDEWIWIN or great medicine society and its ceremonials, and other religious movements.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Historian
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle; 1998
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- seventeenth - twentieth centuries
- Coverage Place
- Central Ojibwa: United States and Canada
- Notes
- Christopher Vecsey
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-228)
- LCCN
- 83072209
- LCSH
- Ojibwa Indians