Summer in the Spring: Anishinaabe Lyric Poems and Stories (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies)

by Gerald Vizenor

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The Anishinaabe, otherwise named the Ojibwe or Chippewa, are famous for their lyric songs and stories, particularly because of their compassionate trickster, naanabozbo, and the healing rituals still practiced today in the society of the Midewiwin. The poems and tales, interpreted and reexpressed here by the distinguished Anishinaabe author Gerald Vizenor, were first transcribed more than a century ago by pioneering ethnographer Frances Densmore and Theodore Hudson Beaulieu, a newspaper editor on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota.

This superb anthology, illustrated with tribal pictomyths and helpfully annotated, includes translations and a glossary of the Anishinaabe words in which the poems and stories originally were spoken.

  • ISBN13 9780806125183
  • Publish Date 15 March 1993
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Oklahoma Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 174
  • Language English