Honour Earth Mother : Mino-Audjaudauh Mizzu-Kummik-Quae

Johnston, Basil 1929- (author., Author).

Summary: Honour Earth Mother is an inspiring reminder of the affection and reverence that the Native peoples of North America have had for the land. For Native peoples the earth was special, the dwelling place of manitous and spirits and the repository of the bones of generations of ancestors. And the earth remains today a deep wellspring of revelations and unveiled mysteries for those who take time to watch, listen, and reflect. Celebrated Ojibwa writer Basil Johnston invites us to go into the woods and meadows, mountains, valleys, and seashores to watch miracles still unfolding, to listen to nature's symphonies, to feel the pulse of the earth, to take in the fragrances, and to sense the awesome. His stories of the creatures, seasons, and landscape of the earth reveal a land that has never stopped brimming with beauty, song, and dance.

Record details

ISBN: 0973139617
ISBN: 9780973139617
Physical Description: xix, 171 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Edition: First edition
Publisher: Wiarton, Ont. : Kegedonce Press, [2003].
Copyright: ©2003

Content descriptions

General Note:	First Nations author.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- Red Jacket of the Seneca Nation -- Preface -- Creation -- Mother Earth -- Mizzu-kummik-quae -- Creation -- Re-creation -- Neighbours -- The Pipe of Peace -- Weather -- Summer and Winter -- Reading the Sky -- The Bear, The Little Bear, and the Fisher -- The Signs -- Kinds of weather -- Tornadoes, Thunderstorms, Winds -- Plants -- Corn, Wild rice Mino-Meen, Strawberries, Raspberries, Plants as medicine -- the White Water Lily, Cedar, Birch, Tobacco, Sweet Grass, Sage -- Trees as shelter, Trees as fountains -- The Maple -- Insects, Bugs, Little creatures -- Bees, Fireflies -- Lightning bugs, Cicadas -- The Painters, Butterflies, Mosquitoes -- Birds -- How the birds got their colours -- Robins, Woopeckers, Buzzards, Seagulls -- Animals -- Dogs, Bears, Beavers, Porcupines and others, Moose, Rabbits -- Fish -- Thou Shalt Honour Earth Mother -- Glossary.
Action Note:	Committed to retain 20170101 20321231 COPPUL SPAN Monograph