essay
Windigo, a Chipewyan story
american indian life, by several of its students • New York • Published In 1925 • Pages: 325-336
By: Lowie, Robert Harry.
Abstract
This is Lowie's retelling of a Chipewyan tale about the Windigo, a fearsome bush spirit. It is a tale about how a Métis summons the courage to defeat and kill a trader who won his wife in a wrestling competition. The trader is depicted as a paragon among men--big, strong, and savvy--except for a debilitating fear of the Windigo. When the two are alone at a remote campsite, the Métis exploits this one weakness of the trader by telling him a haunting tale about a local Windigo . The trader is incapacitated with fear. The Métis becomes possessed by a Windigo and attacks and kills the trader.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 1999
- Field Date
- Not Specified
- Coverage Date
- not Specified
- Coverage Place
- north-central Canada
- Notes
- Robert H. Lowie
- LCSH
- Chipewyan Indians