Naamiwan's drum : the story of a contested repatriaton of Anishinaabe artefacts

Matthews, Maureen Anne 1949- (author.).

Summary: "Naamiwan's Drum follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. This drum, and forty other artefacts, were given away by a Canadian museum to an American Anishinaabe group that had no family or community connections to the collection. Many years passed before the drum was returned to the family and only half of the artefacts were ever returned to the museum."--

Record details

ISBN: 9781442628267
ISBN: 9781442650152
ISBN: 144265015X
ISBN: 144262826X
Physical Description: print
xi, 325 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm
Publisher: Toronto ; University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-305) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Introduction -- 2. Omishoosh : a visit to the museum -- 3. Animacy : linguistic considerations -- 4. Dewe'igan : repatriation -- 5. Personhood : wiikaan and artefact -- 6. Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge : Ojibwe advocacy and revitalization -- 7. Repatriation : cultural rights and the construction of meaning -- 8. Nelson Owen : mitigwakik homecoming -- 9. Agency and artefacts : new theoretical approaches -- 10. Repatriating agency : an agency analysis of repatriation -- Appendix A: Timeline -- Appendix B: Ojibwe language notes -- Appendix C: Anishinaabemowin glossary.