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Fair Wind: medicine and consolation in the Berens River
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association • Ottawa • Published In 1993 • Pages: 55-74
By: Brown, Jennifer S. H., 1940, Matthews, Maureen.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article presents a biographical sketch of Fair Wind (Naamiwan), an Ojibwa healer and leader known along the Berens River of Manitoba and northwestern Ontario during the early to mid-twentieth century. The paper describes his life and explores the nature of his religious leadership, based in large part on the memories of his descendants, and on the records left by the ethnologist Hallowell, the reports of numerous fur traders and missionaries, and others who visited the region during his lifetime (1851-1944). The document also describes the origin and development of Fair Wind's distinctive drum ceremonial, the roots of which extended to the Drum Dance that originated in Minnesota in the 1870s (p. 55).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Life history materials
- Musical instruments
- Dance
- Status, role, and prestige
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Organized ceremonial
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ojibwa
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1900-1944
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Northern Ojibwa: Berens River area of Manitoba and northwestern Ontario, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jenifer S. H. Brown in collaboration with Maureen Matthews
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sn 91034786
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ojibwa Indians