Title As sacred to us : Simon Pokagon's birch bark stories in their contexts / edited by Blaire Morseau

Published East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2023] ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (x, 154 pages) ; illustrations, maps Series American Indian studies series American Indian studies series (East Lansing, Mich.) Contents Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction | Bmejwen Kyle Malott and Blaire Morseau -- A Note on the Texts | Kelly Wisecup -- A Brief Survey of Documenting the Potawatomi Language | Corinne Kasper -- Summary for Pottawatamie Book of Genesis | Blaire Morseau -- Dibangimowin Pottawattamie Ejitodwin Aunishnawbe (Pottawattamie Legend of the Creation of Man) | Chief Pokagon -- Summary and Geological Context for Algonquin Legends of Paw Paw Lake | Nicholas Marcelletti and Blaire Morseau -- Algonquin Legends of Paw Paw Lake | Chief Pokagon Summary for Algonquin Legends of South Haven | Blaire Morseau -- Algonquin Legends of South Haven | Chief Pokagon -- Summary for The Red Man's Rebuke | Blaire Morseau -- The Red Man's Rebuke | Chief Pokagon -- Printing and Circulating Simon Pokagon's The Red Man's Rebuke and The Red Man's Greeting | Kelly Wisecup -- Materiality and Conservation of Simon Pokagon's Birch Bark Books | Oa Sjoblom and Marieka Kaye -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors Summary "Originally published in 1893 and 1901, Simon Pokagon's birch bark stories were printed on thinly peeled and elegantly bound birch bark. These booklets are reprinted with new essays that set the stories in cultural, linguistic, historical, and even geological context. Experts in Native literary traditions, history, Algonquian languages, the Michigan landscape, and materials conservation illuminate the thousands of years of Indigenous knowledge that Pokagon elevated in his stories"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Pokagon, Simon, 1830-1899 -- Criticism and interpretation Pokagon, Simon, 1830-1899 American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism Potawatomi literature -- Michigan -- History and criticism American literature -- Indian authors LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General Michigan Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Morseau, Blaire, editor. LC no. 2023001819 ISBN 1609177363 9781609177362

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