Acknowledgments
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PART I: INTRODUCTION
Page 14-39
-----George Nelson
Page 16-36
-----Editorial Procedures
Page 37-39
PART II: GEORGE NELSON'S LETTER-JOURNAL
Page 40-129
-----Conjuring at Lac la Ronge, December 1819
Page 42-45
-----Dreaming to Conjure and Predict
Page 46-47
-----The Spirits, their Shapes, and their Songs
Page 48-48
-----The Supreme Being
Page 48-48
-----Old Nick (Key-jick-oh-kay)
Page 49-49
-----Other Beings
Page 50-50
-----The Sun; Nelson's Dream
Page 50-50
-----Roots and Herbs
Page 51-51
-----The Manner of Conjuring
Page 52-52
-----The Spirits Enter: Their Names and Natures
Page 52-55
-----The Conjurors' Power
Page 56-56
-----A Cree Myth, 1823: The Birth of Wee-suck-a-jock and Mi-shaw-bose
Page 57-57
-----The Battle of Weesuckajock and the Water Lynxes
Page 58-59
-----The Making of the Land
Page 60-60
-----The Making of Human Beings
Page 61-61
-----The Son of Weesuckajock
Page 62-62
-----Sickness in Spirit Form: A Lac la Ronge Cree Account
Page 62-63
-----The Spirits' Gifts and Demands
Page 64-64
-----Encounters with Pah-kack (Skeleton)
Page 64-65
-----Sacrifices and Feasts for Pah-kack
Page 66-66
-----Pah-kack Feasts at Lac la Ronge
Page 67-67
-----Medicines and the Abode of "Esculapius"
Page 68-70
-----Songs: Their Transmission and Uses
Page 71-72
-----Conjuring against Starvation, Wisconsin, 1804
Page 73-74
-----Soul-darting
Page 77-77
-----Sorcery for Protection and Revenge
Page 78-78
-----Sexual Sorcery
Page 79-80
-----Hunting Medicine
Page 81-81
-----Love Medicine
Page 82-83
-----Hunters Bewitched and Restored
Page 84-85
-----An Iroquois Hunter Bewitched
Page 86-87
-----Stories of Nay-han-nee-mis
Page 88-92
-----Man in his Natural State
Page 93-93
-----Skepticism, Belief, and Innovation
Page 94-95
-----Conjuring for a North West Company Gentleman
Page 96-96
-----The Lost Traveller and the Wolf Spirit
Page 97-97
-----Pursuit by a Pah-kack
Page 98-98
-----The Windigo
Page 98-98
-----Baiting a Windigo
Page 99-100
-----Sources and Forms of Windigo
Page 101-102
-----Windigo Dreams
Page 103-103
-----Windigo Possession, Lake Winnipeg
Page 104-104
-----A Windigo Execution
Page 105-105
-----Windigo Cures and Precautions
Page 106-106
-----Malignant Spirits
Page 107-107
-----Affinities and Origins
Page 108-108
-----Deviance, Confession, and Expiation
Page 109-112
-----Conjuring at Lac la Ronge, June 1823
Page 115-119
-----Dramatis Personae
Page 120-129
PART III: NORTHERN ALGONQUIAN RELIGIOUS AND MYTHIC THEMES AND PERSONAGES: CONTEXTS AND COMPARISONS
Page 130-199
-----Cosmogonic Myths and Beings from Lac la Ronge
Page 137-150
-----Dream Guardians and the Vision Fast
Page 151-158
-----The Shaking Lodge
Page 159-170
-----The Windigo Complex
Page 171-183
-----Medicine: Healing and Sorcery
Page 184-196
-----A Final Note
Page 197-199
-----ON NELSON'S TEXT
Page 202-211
-----ON THE ETHICS OF PUBLISHING HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
Page 212-217
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