The Orders of the Dreamed
George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823
- Publisher
- University of Manitoba Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1997
- Category
- Native American
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780887554087
- Publish Date
- Aug 2009
- List Price
- $16.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887556227
- Publish Date
- Jan 1997
- List Price
- $18.95
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Description
The introduction by Brown and Brightman describes Nelson's career in the fur trade and explains the influences affecting his perception and understanding of Native religions. They also provide a comparative summary of Subarctic Algonquian religion, with emphasis on the beliefs and practices described by Nelson. Stan Cuthand, a Cree Anglican minister, author, and language instructor, who lived in Lac la Ronge in the 1940s, adds a commentary relating Nelson's writing to his own knowledge of Cree religion in Saskatchewan. Emma LaRoque, an author and instructor in Native Studies, presents a Native scholar's perspective on the ethics of publishing historical documents.
About the authors
Jennifer S. H. Brown taught history at the University of Winnipeg for twenty-eight years and held a Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal history from 2004 to 2011. She served as director of the Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies, which focuses on Aboriginal peoples and the fur trade of the Hudson Bay watershed, from 1996 to 2010. She is the editor of the Rupert’s Land Record Society documentary series (McGill-Queen’s University Press), which publishes original materials on Aboriginal and fur trade history. She now resides in Denver, Colorado, where she continues her scholarly work.
Jennifer S.H. Brown's profile page
Robert Brightman is professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin.
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