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People of the Longhouse (Paperback)
Robin Ridington, Jillian Ridington; Illustrated by Ian Bateson
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The Iroguoian people-Huron, Iroquois and many others-lived
throughout the Great Lakes basin and the St. Lawrence River
valley.Their lands were rich in game, criss-crossed by waterways
and well suited for agriculture. They cleared fields around large
fortified villages and lived in longhouses made of wood. Men's
activities centered on hunting, fishing and a far-reaching trade
with other tribes. Women grew and harvested the crops of corn,
beans and squash. These abundant resources made possible a
sophisticated culture. They formed leagues with laws and a
constitution, invented games like lacrosse and used wampum shells
as a form of exchange. This book describes in fascinating detail
every aspect of the Iroquoian way of life-farming, hunting,
trading, beliefs, clothing, housing, clans and villages, political
structure, warfare-as well as the impact of contact with Europeans.
Jillian Ridington has taught native studies and works as a
freelance researcher, writer and broadcaster. Robin Ridington
teaches anthropology at the University of British Columbia. The are
also the authors of People of the Trail. Ian Bateson is a freelance
artist whose books include People of the Trail and People of the
Ice.
The story of the Blind Man and the Loon is a living Native folktale
about a blind man who is betrayed by his mother or wife but whose
vision is magically restored by a kind loon. Variations of this
tale are told by Native storytellers all across Alaska, arctic
Canada, Greenland, the Northwest Coast, and even into the Great
Basin and the Great Plains. As the story has traveled through
cultures and ecosystems over many centuries, individual
storytellers have added cultural and local ecological details to
the tale, creating countless variations. In The Blind Man and the
Loon: The Story of a Tale, folklorist Craig Mishler goes back to
1827, tracing the story's emergence across Greenland and North
America in manuscripts, books, and in the visual arts and other
media such as film, music, and dance theater. Examining and
comparing the story's variants and permutations across cultures in
detail, Mishler brings the individual storyteller into his analysis
of how the tale changed over time, considering how storytellers and
the oral tradition function within various societies. Two maps
unequivocally demonstrate the routes the story has traveled. The
result is a masterful compilation and analysis of Native oral
traditions that sheds light on how folktales spread and are adapted
by widely diverse cultures.
Robin Ridington and Dennis Hastings ingeniously adopt the
conventions of Omaha oral narratives to tell the story and convey
the significance of the Sacred Pole. Portions of classic
anthropological texts (particularly Fletcher and La Flesche's "The
Omaha Tribe"), Omaha narratives, and other historical and
contemporary accounts are repeated--each time in a different, more
enlightening context--in a circle of stories seamlessly woven
around Umon'hon'ti. The result is an innovative account that
effortlessly glides between past and present. This unique blend of
Omaha poetics, ethnography, and ethnohistory is a significant
contribution to our understanding of the religious life of Native
Americans.
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