As Sacred to Us

Simon Pokagon’s Birch Bark Stories in Their Contexts

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Originally published in 1893 and 1901, Simon Pokagon’s birch bark stories were printed on thinly peeled and elegantly bound birch bark. In this edition, these rare booklets are reprinted with new essays that set the stories in cultural, linguistic, historical, and even geological context. Experts in Native literary traditions, history, Algonquian languages, the Michigan landscape, and materials conservation illuminate the thousands of years of Indigenous knowledge that Pokagon elevated in his stories. This is an essential resource for teachers and scholars of Native literature, Neshnabé pasts and futures, Algonquian linguistics, and book history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-10-01
Mått152 x 229 x 12 mm
Vikt282 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAmerican Indian Studies
Antal sidor166
FörlagMichigan State University Press
ISBN9781611864625

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Contents Preface Introduction | Bmejwen Kyle Malott and Blaire Morseau A Note on the Texts | Kelly Wisecup A Brief Survey of Documenting the Potawatomi Language | Corinne Kasper Summary for Pottawatamie Book of Genesis | Blaire Morseau Dibangimowin Pottawattamie Ejitodwin Aunishnawbe (Pottawattamie Legend of the Creation of Man) | Chief Pokagon Summary and Geological Context for Algonquin Legends of Paw Paw Lake | Nicholas Marcelletti and Blaire Morseau Algonquin Legends of Paw Paw Lake | Chief Pokagon Summary for Algonquin Legends of South Haven | Blaire Morseau Algonquin Legends of South Haven | Chief Pokagon Summary for The Red Man’s Rebuke | Blaire Morseau The Red Man’s Rebuke | Chief Pokagon Printing and Circulating Simon Pokagon’s The Red Man’s Rebuke and The Red Man’s Greeting | Kelly Wisecup Materiality and Conservation of Simon Pokagon’s Birch Bark Books | Oa Sjoblom and Marieka Kaye Acknowledgments Contributors

As Sacred to Us unfurls the complexity of Simon Pokagon’s work and the meaning his publications still hold for readers today. As Pokagon Potawatomi acts of bookmaking, his words and the material presentations of them are important intercultural artifacts. Simon includes several languages spoken by members of his community across the generations and gives insight into Anishinaabe philosophy, geosciences, and theology. This reprinting of his narratives allows the land his ancestors knew as “wawkwing dash Au-kee” (heaven on earth) to remain part of the way we understand the southwest shores of Mi-shi-gan (Lake Michigan) today.—Margaret Noodin, cocreator of www.ojibwe.net, author of two bilingual collections of poetry in Anishinaabemowin and English