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Culture:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Odawa includes: Ottawa
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language:English
Date:1955
Contributor:Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch
Subject:Ethnography | Religion | Medicine | Folklore | Music | Michigan--History
Type:Text
Genre:Musical scores | Essays | Songs
Extent:1 volume
Description: The draft of an unpublished book. Includes pictures and musical scores. Attempts, by detailed analysis and description of present-day customs in historical perspective to evaluate powwows, feasts, and camp meetings in Ottawa culture. Twelve chapters give brief history, biographies, and locations; describe festivals and dances in detail; analyze native songs (scores); describe a Chippewa Methodist camp meeting and hymns, with analysis of hymn texts and tunes. Also, presnnts Ottawa superstitions (bear walking, medicines, herbs), 42 Ottawa myths (see also #2642), material on natural-history usage. Attempts to reconstruct function of ritual, with historical references.
Collection:Religious Customs of Modern Michigan Algonquians (Mss.497.3.K965a)
Culture:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Odawa includes: Ottawa
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Date:1953-1955
Contributor:Kenosha, David | Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch | Shagonaby, Susan | Shalifoe, Thomas | Albert, Whitney | Thomas, Albert | Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976 | Peters, Jim | Sprague, Selkirk | Soney, William | Soney, Fred | Thomas, Eli | Pamp, Betty | Joan Pamp | Rickard, Glenna
Subject:Michigan--History | Religion | Music | Social life and customs | Methodists | Catholic Church
Type:Sound recording
Extent:3 hr., 32 min. : DIGITIZED
Description: Traditional and Christian songs in the Ottawa and Chippewa languages, recorded with numerous singers in multiple communities in Michigan in the mid-1950s. Recorded as part of Gertrude Kurath's broader study of contemporary religion and music among Anishinaabe communities in Michigan. Includes traditional songs, Catholic hymns, and Free Methodist revival meetings. Also includes one talk entitled, "Longfellow's Use of Michigan Indian Tales." (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Songs and Dances of the Rural Ottawa and Chippewa Indians (Mss.Rec.20)