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Bezig met laden... Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year (2017)door Linda LeGarde Grover
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Over 50 short stories about the Ojibwe culture. I don't enjoy this format but you could pick and choose the stories you wanted to read and the chapters were short. ( ) Very low key, like sitting in the kitchen with your Auntie, listening to her. Most of these essays were originally written for a newspaper column about modern life of an Anishinabe woman. Scattered in with her daily experiences and memories of historical events are some teachings about Anishinabe values and language. For example, we learn that children were taught by careful observation, thinking things over, then trying themselves. Eventually they will be expected to teach others what they have learned. Primary Anishinabe values include modesty, respect, thankfulness, generosity, and contributing to the well-being of others. Grover shows how these play out in her family's daily life. Pronunciation note: double vowels just indicate that you take longer to say them, it doesn't change the sound of the vowel. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Long before it came to be known as Duluth, the land at the western tip of Lake Superior was known to the Ojibwe as Onigamiising, "the place of the small portage." There the Ojibwe lived in keeping with the seasons, moving among different camps for hunting and fishing, for cultivating and gathering, for harvesting wild rice and maple sugar. In Onigamiising Linda LeGarde Grover accompanies us through this cycle of the seasons, one year in a lifelong journey on the path to Mino Bimaadiziwin, the living of a good life. In fifty short essays, Grover reflects on the spiritual beliefs and everyday practices that carry the Ojibwe through the year and connect them to this northern land of rugged splendor. As the four seasons unfold--from Ziigwan (Spring) through Niibin and Dagwaagin to the silent, snowy promise of Biboon--the award-winning author writes eloquently of the landscape and the weather, work and play, ceremony and tradition and family ways, from the homey moments shared over meals to the celebrations that mark life's great events. Now a grandmother, a Nokomis, beginning the fourth season of her life, Grover draws on a wealth of stories and knowledge accumulated over the years to evoke the Ojibwe experience of Onigamiising, past and present, for all time. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)977.004History and Geography North America Midwestern U.S.LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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