Dangerous spirits : the windigo in myth and history
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Smallman, Shawn
- Publisher
- Victoria : Heritage House Publishing
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Call Number
- 07.2 S6d
- Author
- Smallman, Shawn
- Responsibility
- Shawn Smallman
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Publisher
- Victoria : Heritage House Publishing
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 221 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Residential schools
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "In the traditional Algonquian world, the windigo is the spirit of selfishness, which can transform a person into a murderous cannibal. Native peoples over a vast stretch of North America--from Virginia in the south to Labrador in the north, from Nova Scotia in the east to Minnesota in the west--believed in the windigo, not only as a myth told in the darkness of winter, but also as a real danger. Drawing on oral narratives, fur traders' journals, trial records, missionary accounts, and anthropologists' field notes, this book is a revealing glimpse into indigenous beliefs, cross-cultural communication, and embryonic colonial relationships. It also ponders the recent resurgence of the windigo in popular culture and its changing meaning in a modern context."--From publisher.
- ISBN
- 9781772030327
- Accession Number
- P2015-03-31
- Call Number
- 07.2 S6d
- Collection
- Archives Library
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