Summer in the Spring: Anishinaabe Lyric Poems and Stories (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series)

by Gerald Vizenor

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The Anishinaabe, otherwise named the Ojibwe or Chippewa, are famous for their lyric songs and stories, particularly because of their compassionate trickster, naanabozbo, and the healing rituals still practiced today in the society of the Midewiwin. The poems and tales, interpreted and reexpressed here by the distinguished Anishinaabe author Gerald Vizenor, were first transcribed more than a century ago by pioneering ethnographer Frances Densmore and Theodore Hudson Beaulieu, a newspaper show more editor on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota. This superb anthology, illustrated with tribal pictomyths and helpfully annotated, includes translations and a glossary of the Anishinaabe words in which the poems and stories originally were spoken. show less

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An artistic cultural primer, this slim volume contains lyric dream poems and stories from the Ojibwe people. It provides an intimate look into the religious beliefs, cultural practices and artistry of this unique indigenous group.

Favorite Poems: [moving forward and back], [my lover]

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Gerald Vizenor is Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and a professor emeritus of American studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence, Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance, and show more Native Storiers: Five Selections, all published by the University of Nebraska Press show less

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Fiction and Literature, Poetry
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897.3Literature & rhetoricLiteratures of other languagesLiteratures of North American native languagesAlgic languages
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PM854 .Z95 .S95Language and LiteratureHyperborean, Native American, and artificial languagesHyperborean, Indian, and artificial languagesIndian languagesSpecial languages of the United States and Canada
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