Book
The Mishomis book: the voice of the Ojibway
Indian Country Press] • [st. Paul, Minn. • Published In 1979 • Pages:
By: Benton-Banai, Edward.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book is a collection of myths and oral histories of the Ojibwa as told by Edward Benton Banai, a full-blooded Wisconsin Ojibwa. Benton Banai is a founder and director of a charter school serving St. Paul, Minnesota's urban Indian community. The school was one of the first of its kind to provide a culture-based curriculum. This book fits into the mission of the school by providing 'an accurate and undistorted account of the culture, history and philosophy of the Ojibway Nation.' It includes Ojibwa myths about creation, culture heroes, the great flood, and the Seven Grandfathers. The author also discusses the clan system, and symbolism of the pipe, eagle, and sweat lodge. Using the 'Prophecies of the Seven Fires,' he traces the migratory history of the Ojibwa from Eastern North America to their present homes on Manitoulin and Madeline islands.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Recreational and non-therapeutic drugs
- Public structures
- Religious and educational structures
- Visual arts
- Musical instruments
- Mythology
- Revelation and divination
- Ideas about nature and people
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Educator
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 900-1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Twentieth Century Ojibwa, Canada and United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Edward Benton-Banai
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80138057
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ojibwa Indians