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Âh-âyîtaw isi ê-kî-kiskêyihtahkik maskihkiy = They knew both sides of medicine : Cree tales of curing and cursing  Cover Image Book Book

Âh-âyîtaw isi ê-kî-kiskêyihtahkik maskihkiy = They knew both sides of medicine : Cree tales of curing and cursing

Ahenakew, Alice 1912- (author.). Ahenakew, Freda, 1932-2011 (editor, translator.). Wolfart, H. Christoph, 1943- (editor, translator.). Algonquian Text Society (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 0887556493
  • Physical Description: print
    viii, 314 pages : map, portraits ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, [2000]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note: Case histories of living practice / H.C. Wolfart -- Part I. Anglican priest and Cree healer -- 1. Coping with a Windigo and the great epidemic -- 2. Courtship and marriage -- 3. A tour of England -- 4. The priest's bear medicine -- Part II. Strange new world -- 5. Good times in a hard life -- 6. A throw-away society -- 7. An ungodly smell -- 8. Facing the other -- Part III. Powers of good and evil -- 9. Escaping a Windigo and starvation -- 10. Seeking refuge -- 11. A dreadful curse (first telling) -- 12. A dreadful curse (second telling)
Language Note:
Text in English and Cree.
Action Note:
Committed to retain 20170101 20321231 COPPUL SPAN Monograph
Subject: Cree language -- Texts
Cree language -- Dictionaries -- English
Cree Indians -- Religion
Cree Indians -- Medicine
Cree Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
Indians of North America -- Rites and ceremonies
SPAN-M
Topic Heading: Indigenous.
First Nations Canada.

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at University College of the North Libraries.

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The Pas Campus Library PM 989 .A445 A74 2000 (Text) 38500000122205 Stacks Volume hold Available -
Thompson Campus Library PM 989 .A445 A74 2000 (Text) 58500000415612 Stacks Volume hold Available -

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