The Manitous

The Manitous
Author: Basil Johnston
Publisher: Borealis Book
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2001
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780873514118

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From the rich oral culture of his own Ojibway Indian heritage, Basil Johnston presents a collection of legends and tales depicting manitous, mystical beings who are divine and essential forces in the spiritual life of his people.

Exploring North Manitou, South Manitou, High and Garden Islands of the Lake Michigan Archipelago

Exploring North Manitou, South Manitou, High and Garden Islands of the Lake Michigan Archipelago
Author: Robert H. Ruchhoft
Publisher:
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN:

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For those who are looking to get-away-from-it-all camping & hiking summer vacation on four uninhabited Lake Michigan Islands, this book describes a delightful mixture of hikes along secluded beaches, through semi-wilderness forest, & sites of abandoned farms & ghost towns. North Manitou & South Manitou are part of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore while High & Garden Islands are administered by Michigan's Department of Natural Resources. Histories of the islands are included. Three of the four islands once had small towns & were farmed by nineteenth-century German & Scandanavian immigrants. One was the site of an early twentieth-century communal religious colony where the sexes lived separately. Another is rich in Indian lore with over 2,000 Indians buried there. Today, except for a few historic buildings & ranger residences, the islands are rapidly returning to wilderness.Included are detailed trail maps for each island & 230 photographs divided between historical prints & contemporary pictures. Trail information includes trail length, hiking time, points of interest along or near the trails. Also included are suggestions on what to bring, the best times to visit, how to get to each island & suggested hiking itineraries.

The Manitous

The Manitous
Author: Basil Johnston
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 247
Release: 1995
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780060171995

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A collection of sacred stories comprises the spiritual teachings and perceptions of the Ojibway people and addresses the living essences that infuse and safeguard every plant and animal.

Ojibway Heritage

Ojibway Heritage
Author: Basil Johnston
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2011-01-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1551995905

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Rarely accessible beyond the limits of its people, Ojibway mythology is as rich in meaning and mystery, as broad, as deep, and as innately appealing as the mythologies of Greece, Rome, Egypt, and other civilizations. In Ojibway Heritage, Basil Johnston sets forth the broad spectrum of his people’s life, legends, and beliefs. Stories to be read, enjoyed, dwelt on, and freely interpreted, their authorship is perhaps most properly attributed to the tribal storytellers who have carried on the oral tradition which Basil Johnston records and preserves in this book.

Manitou

Manitou
Author: James W. Mavor, Jr.
Publisher: Inner Traditions
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1989-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780892810789

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In the summer of 1974 Byron Dix discovered in Vermont the first of many areas in New England believed to be ancient Native American ritual sites. Dix and coauthor James Mavor tell the fascinating story of the discovery and exploration of these many stone structures and standing stones, whose placement in the surrounding landscape suggests that they played an important role in celestial observation and shamanic ritual.

Manitou and God

Manitou and God
Author: R. Murray Thomas
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2007-10-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

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Considers the confrontation between Christian culture and Native American culture and religion, covering their similarities and their differences.

The Manitou

The Manitou
Author: Graham Masterton
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2014-05-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1497631424

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An ancient vengeful spirit attempts to return through the body of a terrified young woman in this horror classic by an award-winning “master of the genre” (Rocky Mountain News). Phony psychic and conman Harry Erskine never really believed in the occult until Karen Tandy approached him with a rapidly growing tumor on her neck, complaining of dark and disturbing dreams. When the mass is revealed by doctors to contain something living, the stakes skyrocket—not only for Karen and Harry but for all humanity. Something terrible is returning from the shadows to which it has been confined for centuries—a Native American monstrosity determined to destroy every vestige of the white race that oppressed and preyed upon America’s Indians. And unless a motley group of ill-prepared defenders can harness an ancient native magic, there will be no stopping the malevolent shaman’s terrible rebirth—and no escaping the wholesale carnage it will engender. The Manitou introduced the great Graham Masterton to the canon of horror, instantly placing him among the genre’s elite. A longtime favorite for its bold originality, unrelenting creepiness, supernatural shocks, and otherworldly surprises that would have made H. P. Lovecraft proud, Masterton’s classic continues to stand tall alongside Stephen King’s Carrie, Peter Straub’s Ghost Story, and other unforgettable literary horror debuts.

Ojibway Ceremonies

Ojibway Ceremonies
Author: Basil Johnston
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780803275737

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The Ojibway Indians were first encountered by the French early in the seventeenth century along the northern shores of Lakes Huron and Superior. By the time Henry Wadsworth Longfellow immortalized them in The Song of Hiawatha, theyøhad dispersed over large areas of Canada and the United States, becoming known as the Chippewas in the latter. A rare and fascinating glimpse of Ojibway culture before its disruption by the Europeans is provided in Ojibway Ceremonies by Basil Johnston, himself an Ojibway who was born on the Parry Island Indian Reserve. Johnston focuses on a young member of the tribe and his development through participation in the many rituals so important to the Ojibway way of life, from the Naming Ceremony and the Vision Quest to the War Path, and from the Marriage Ceremony to the Ritual of the Dead. In the style of a tribal storyteller, Johnston preserves the attitudes and beliefs of forest dwellers and hunters whose lives were vitalized by a sense of the supernatural and of mystery.

Indian School Days

Indian School Days
Author: Basil H. Johnston
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2022-12-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0806192704

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This book is the humorous, bitter-sweet autobiography of a Canadian Ojibwa who was taken from his family at age ten and placed in Jesuit boarding school in northern Ontario. It was 1939 when the feared Indian agent visited Basil Johnston’s family and removed him and his four-year-old sister to St. Peter Claver’s school, run by the priests in a community known as Spanish, 75 miles from Sudbury. “Spanish! It was a word synonymous with residential school, penitentiary, reformatory, exile, dungeon, whippings, kicks, slaps, all rolled into one,” Johnston recalls. But despite the aching loneliness, the deprivation, the culture shock and the numbing routine, his story is engaging and compassionate. Johnston creates marvelous portraits of the young Indian boys who struggled to adapt to strange ways and unthinking, unfeeling discipline. Even the Jesuit teachers, whose flashes of humor occasionally broke through their stern demeanor, are portrayed with an understanding born of hindsight.

Wonderful Power

Wonderful Power
Author: Susan R. Martin
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780814328439

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This work examines the archaeological record of copper mining in the Lake Superior area.