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Prophecy and power among the Dogrib Indians / June Helm.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the anthropology of North American IndiansPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, �1994.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 172 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585266441
  • 9780585266442
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Prophecy and power among the Dogrib Indians.DDC classification:
  • 299/.782 20
LOC classification:
  • E99.T4 H45 1994eb
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Contents:
Orthography -- Three styles in the practice of prophecy: 1. Prelude to prophecy: To set the stage ; Travels and contacts in the Dogrib Prophet Movement ; Becoming a prophet: Chi's coming to prophecy, Naidzo's coming the prophecy, Jack the Rae Prophet -- 2. Message, performance, and persona: Message ; Performance: The Prophet Ceremony of Jack the Rae Prophet ; Persona -- 3. The foundations of prophecy: Society, authority, and the prophets ; Qualities of Dogrib prophecy: Earlier prophets, Components of prophecy, Prophecy and Ink'on ; Afterword -- 4. One man's Ink'on -- 5. Aspects of Ink'on: Getting and becoming Ink'on ; The animals: How the people got song and dance from the animals, Spider Ink'on, Raven Ink'on, Lego and Loche, Boss for the nets, Proscriptions imposed by animals ; Hunters' Ink'on: Wedzitxa, Etana and the caribou, Hunters' Ink'on and proscriptions on women's food, Family food proscriptions ; Curing with Ink'on: John Bighead cures Vital, Toby Bearlake requires "the truth" to cure a fornicator, The ethnologist's curing story boomerangs ; Cree medicine: Cree Nahdi and Dogrib Ink'on, Boniface -- 6. "The highest men for Ink'on": One Foot in Heaven, alias One Foot in Hell; Slim Ekawi and the Eskimos ; Gaxieh ; Alphonse turns into a wolf ; Ts'ocia ; Godeh and the York Boat Brigade, 1962 version ; Godeh and the York Boat Brigade, 1969 version ; Another story about calling up the wind ; How the Ink'on got the manager's mind ; Got'ocia ; Bad medicine: Old Marrow; The crippling of Beaverhook ; Unintended harm from medicine -- 7. Ink'on in play and legend: Ink'on in the hand game: Taiya and the Bear Lake man, One Foot in Heaven's father and the Bear Lake chief, Otendah ; "Playing" with Ink'on: Dzekwin, Tsinco ; History into legend: Edzo and Akaitcho ; Massacre at Mbe�soti, How the Chipewyans killed the bull in the rock, The dragon in the rock, Flyman, The boy who changed into a frog, The boy with thunder medicine, Yambati, How the Barrens came to be and Went Inside Mountain got its name -- 8. Vital Thomas: a brief autobiography: Earliest memories ; Childhood and youth ; To the Barren Ground for caribou: A preview of Treaty (1920-1921) ; The years with the Police (1922-1936) ; The later years -- Appendix: Dogrib leadership.
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Summary: The Dogrib Indians are one of the Dene groups - Athapaskan-speaking peoples of the western Canadian Subarctic. Based on the author's field studies from 1959 to 1976, this volume presents an ethnographic description of the Dogrib prophet movement.
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"In cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-168) and index.

The Dogrib Indians are one of the Dene groups - Athapaskan-speaking peoples of the western Canadian Subarctic. Based on the author's field studies from 1959 to 1976, this volume presents an ethnographic description of the Dogrib prophet movement.

Orthography -- Three styles in the practice of prophecy: 1. Prelude to prophecy: To set the stage ; Travels and contacts in the Dogrib Prophet Movement ; Becoming a prophet: Chi's coming to prophecy, Naidzo's coming the prophecy, Jack the Rae Prophet -- 2. Message, performance, and persona: Message ; Performance: The Prophet Ceremony of Jack the Rae Prophet ; Persona -- 3. The foundations of prophecy: Society, authority, and the prophets ; Qualities of Dogrib prophecy: Earlier prophets, Components of prophecy, Prophecy and Ink'on ; Afterword -- 4. One man's Ink'on -- 5. Aspects of Ink'on: Getting and becoming Ink'on ; The animals: How the people got song and dance from the animals, Spider Ink'on, Raven Ink'on, Lego and Loche, Boss for the nets, Proscriptions imposed by animals ; Hunters' Ink'on: Wedzitxa, Etana and the caribou, Hunters' Ink'on and proscriptions on women's food, Family food proscriptions ; Curing with Ink'on: John Bighead cures Vital, Toby Bearlake requires "the truth" to cure a fornicator, The ethnologist's curing story boomerangs ; Cree medicine: Cree Nahdi and Dogrib Ink'on, Boniface -- 6. "The highest men for Ink'on": One Foot in Heaven, alias One Foot in Hell; Slim Ekawi and the Eskimos ; Gaxieh ; Alphonse turns into a wolf ; Ts'ocia ; Godeh and the York Boat Brigade, 1962 version ; Godeh and the York Boat Brigade, 1969 version ; Another story about calling up the wind ; How the Ink'on got the manager's mind ; Got'ocia ; Bad medicine: Old Marrow; The crippling of Beaverhook ; Unintended harm from medicine -- 7. Ink'on in play and legend: Ink'on in the hand game: Taiya and the Bear Lake man, One Foot in Heaven's father and the Bear Lake chief, Otendah ; "Playing" with Ink'on: Dzekwin, Tsinco ; History into legend: Edzo and Akaitcho ; Massacre at Mbe�soti, How the Chipewyans killed the bull in the rock, The dragon in the rock, Flyman, The boy who changed into a frog, The boy with thunder medicine, Yambati, How the Barrens came to be and Went Inside Mountain got its name -- 8. Vital Thomas: a brief autobiography: Earliest memories ; Childhood and youth ; To the Barren Ground for caribou: A preview of Treaty (1920-1921) ; The years with the Police (1922-1936) ; The later years -- Appendix: Dogrib leadership.

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