Centering Anishinaabeg studies : understanding the world through stories

Doerfler, Jill. (Added Author). Stark, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik. (Added Author). Sinclair, Niigaanwewidam James. (Added Author).

Summary: "Examining a range of stories and storytellers across time and space, each contributor explores how narratives form a cultural, political, and historical foundation for Anishinaabeg Studies. Written by Anishinaabeg and non-Anishinaabeg scholars, storytellers, and activists, these essays draw upon the power of cultural expression to illustrate active and ongoing senses of Anishinaabeg life. They are new and dynamic bagijiganan, revealing a viable and sustainable center for Anishinaabeg Studies, what it has been, what it is, what it can be." --publisher's website.

Record details

ISBN: 9780887557613
ISBN: 0887557619
Physical Description: print
xxvii, 417 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, c2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Co-published by: Michigan State University Press.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Maajitaadaa: Nanaboozhoo and the flood, part 2 / John Borrows -- Bagijige: making an offering / Jill Doerfler, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark -- [pt. I.] Eko-bezhig bagijigan: stories as roots : Is that all there is? Tribal literature / Basil H. Johnston ; Name': literary ancestry as presence / Heid E. Erdrich ; Beshaabiiag G'gikenmaaigowag: comets of knowledge / Margaret Noori -- [pt. II.] Eko-niizh bagijigan: stories as relationships : The story is a living being: companionship with stories in Anishinaabeg studies / Eva Marie Garroutte and Kathleen Delores Westcott ; K'zaugin: storying ourselves into life / Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair ; Teaching as story / Thomas Peacock -- [pt. III.] Eko-niswi bagijigan: stories as revelations : Every dream is a prophecy: rethinking revitalization: dreams, prophets, and routinized cultural evolution / Cary Miller ; Constitutional narratives: a conversation with Gerald Vizenor / Gerald Vizenor and James Mackay ; And the Easter Bunny dies: old traditions from new stories / Julie Pelletier -- [pt. IV.] Eko-niiwin bagijigan: stories as resiliency : A philosophy for living: Ignatia Broker and constitutional reform among the White Earth Anishinaabeg / Jill Doerfler ; A perfect copy: Indian culture and tribal law / Matthew L.M. Fletcher ; The hydromythology of the Anishinaabeg: will Mishipizhu survive climate change, or is he creating it? / Melissa K. Nelson -- [pt. V.] Eko-naanan bagijigan: stories as resistance : Wild rice rights: Gerald Vizenor and an affiliation of story / Kimberly Blaeser ; Transforming the trickster: federal Indian law encounters Anishinaabe diplomacy / Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark ; Theorizing resurgence from within Nishnaabeg thought / Leanne Betasamosake Simpson with Edna Manitowabi -- [pt. VI.] Eko-ingodwaasi bagijigan: stories as reclamation : Aadizookewininiwag and the visual arts: story as process and principle in twenty-first century Anishinaabeg painting / David Stirrup ; Stories as Mshkiki: reflections on the healing and migratory practices of Minwaajimo / Dylan A.T. Miner ; Horizon lines, medicine painting, and moose calling: the visual/performative storytelling of three Anishinaabeg artists / Molly McGlennen -- [pt. VII.] Eko-niizhwaasi bagijigan: stories as reflections : Anishinaabeg studies: creative, critical, ethical, and reflexive / Brock Pitawanakwat ; Telling all of our stories: reorienting the legal and political events of the Anishinaabeg / Keith Richotte Jr. ; On the road home: stories and reflections from Neyaashiinigiming / Lindsay Keegitah Borrows.