acaðohkiwina and acimowina : Traditional Narratives of the Rock Cree Indians

Table of Contents

• Contents 6
• Preface 10
• Chapter 1: The Rock Cree and Their Literature 12
• The Rock Cree of Northern Manitoba 12
• Categories of Cree Oral Literature 17
• Chapter 2: ācaðōhkīwin: The w#&299;sahk#299;cāhk Cycle 20
• Cornelius Colomb Narrative 20
• Rolling Head 20
• Contest with wīmisōsiw 22
• The Women and the "Sickness" 25
• The Flood 25
• Marries Daughter 27
• Jeremiah Michel Narrative 29
• Contest with wīmisōsiw 29
• The Flood and the New Earth 32
• Goose Transformation 33
• Shut-Eye Dancers 34
• Squeezed by Trees 35
• wīhtikōw and Weasel 35
• Eye Juggler 36
• The Startlers 37
• The Farting Hunter 37
• Bear's Eye Medicine 38
• Muskrat Cools Grease 38
• Fly Transformation 39
• Fooled by Reflections 39
• Scab Eater 40
• Moose Transformation 40
• Marries Daughter 40
• Albert Umferville Narrative 42
• Tricks Moose and Squeezed by Birds 42
• The Startlers 42
• Fooled by Reflections 42
• Bear's Eye Medicine 43
• Other Versions and Narratives 44
• wīhtikōw and Weasel 44
• wīhtikōw and Weasel 46
• Marries Daughter 47
• Marries Daughter 48
• Contest with wīmisōsiw 49
• Eye Juggler 50
• Goose Transformation 50
• The Shut-Eye Dancers 52
• The Shut-Eye Dancers 53
• Fooled by Reflections 53
• Muskrat Cools Grease 53
• The Startlers 54
• The Farting Hunter and Scab Eater 54
• The Farting Hunter 55
• The Flood and the New Earth 55
• The Flood and the New Earth 55
• wīsahkīcāhk and the Baby 56
• wīsahkīcāhk Changes Frog, Muskrat, and Bear 56
• Rolling Head 58
• Chapter 3: Discussion of the Trickster-Transformer Cycle 60
• wīsahkīcāhk and nenapos 60
• Rock Cree Knowledge of wīsahkīcāhk 63
• Syntagmatic Structure and Sequencing 65
• The Stories 69
• Rolling Head 69
• Contest with wīmisōsiw 70
• The Flood and the New Earth 71
• Goose Transformation 76
• The Shut-Eye Dancers 76
• Squeezed by Trees 77
• Tricks Moose and Squeezed by Birds 78
• wīhtikōw and Weasel 78
• Eye Juggler 79
• The Startlers 79
• The Farting Hunter 80
• Bear's Eye Medicine 81
• Muskrat Cools Fat 81
• Fly Transformation 82
• Fooled by Reflections 82
• Scab Eater 82
• Moose Transformation 83
• Marries Daughter 83
• Imitates Baby 83
• wīsahkīcōhk Changes Frog, Bear, and Muskrat 84
• Chapter 4: Other ācaðōhkīwina 86
• Introduction: The pawākan and the wīhtikōw 86
• Other ācaðōhkīwina 90
• The Origin of Animals 90
• God's Oven 91
• Wolverine and Wolf 93
• The Bear Abductor 95
• mistāpēew 96
• The Thunder Women 97
• ayās 99
• maskōkōsan 106
• mistacayawāsis 110
• The Hairy-Heart People 117
• kayānwī Kills Hairy Hearts at the Beaver Lodge 119
• kayānwī Kills Hairy Hearts with Trees 122
• Wolverine, Wolf, and Fire Medicine 124
• The wīhcikōsisak 126
• cahkāpīs Kills Giants and Snares the Sun 128
• The Dog Council 132
• Wolverine Defeats Great Skunk 132
• Wolf and Dog 135
• Wolverine, Wolf, and Dog 136
• Chapter 5: kayās-ācimōwina 140
• okimāw acāhpīy Kills a Caribou with Snow 140
• mīmīkwīsiwak 140
• manicōw 142
• The Rival Suitors 143
• Medicine Woman Defeats wītikōw 143
• Repulsing a wītikōw 144
• Flight from a wītikōw 145
• wītikōw and the Big-Rock pawākan 147
• Chapter 6: kayās-ācimōwina: manitōkīwin and Catholicism 148
• Introduction 148
• The Arrival of the Priests 150
• mīsīl Kills a wītikōwak 151
• Simulated Crucifixion 152
• Simulated Crucifixion II: Jesus at Highrock 153
• Flying to Heaven 154
• Eskimo in Heaven 155
• Last Offering 156
• Chapter 7: ācimōwina: wītikōw Encounters and Medicine Stories 158
• Barren Lands wītikōw 158
• Laurie River wītikōw 159
• P.B. and wītikōw 160
• Moose Lake wītikōw 161
• Nelson House wītikōw 162
• Introduction to the Medicine Narratives 162
• Sled Medicine 163
• Hair Medicine 163
• Soccer Medicine 164
• Insect Medicine 164
• Enlargement Medicine 164
• Dr. Young and the Saskatoon Medicine Man 164
• Dr. Young's Love Medicine 166
• Can't Refuse Medicine 166
• Goldsand Lake wītikōw 167
• Antoine Dumas's Prophecies 168
• Chapter 8: ācimōwina: Humour 170
• Introduction 170
• Trapper Tricks wītikōw 171
• Drowning the Moose 172
• The Voluble Wolverine 173
• Edmund Sinclair in the Chimney 173
• The First Bush Pilot 174
• Jimmy Bighetty Rides a Moose 174
• The Dumb Partner: The Lost Ducks 175
• The Dumb Partner: The Cat Impersonator 175
• The Dumb Partner: Feasting in Heaven 176
• The Dumb Partner: Scabby Suitor 176
• Chapter 9: Texts: Animal Marriages 178
• Introduction 178
• The Bear Husband 180
• The Beaver Wife 189
• References Cited 192