Michael D Mcnally: 2 books
Honoring Elders
Aging, Authority, and Ojibwe Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
Like many Native Americans, Ojibwe people esteem the wisdom, authority, and religious significance of old age, but this respect does not come easily or naturally. It is the fruit of hard work, rooted in narrative traditions, moral vision, and ritualized practices of decorum that are comparable in...
Ojibwe Singers
Hymns, Grief, and a Native Culture in Motion
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2000
The Ojibwe or Anishinaabe are a native American people of the northern Great Lakes region. 19th-century missionaries promoted the singing of evangelical hymns translated into the Ojibwe language as a tool for rooting out their "indianness," but the Ojibwe have ritualized the singing to make the hymns...