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RAINY RIVER LIVES RainyRiver FM.indd i 6/29/09 12:32:33 PM RainyRiver FM.indd ii 6/29/09 12:32:33 PM RainyRiver FM.indd iii 6/29/09 12:32:33 PM © 2009 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wilson, Maggie, 1879–1940. Rainy River lives : stories told by Maggie Wilson / Maggie Wilson; compiled, edited, and with an introduction by Sally Cole. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8032-2062-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Ojibwa Indians—Anecdotes. 2. Ojibwa Indians—Social life and customs—Anecdotes. 3. Ojibwa In- dians—Folklore. 4. Tales—North America. I. Cole, Sally C. II. Title. e99.c6w64 2009 398.2089'97333—dc22 2008047613 Set in Sabon by Kim Essman. Designed by Ashley Muehlbauer. Some images have been masked due to copyright limitations. RainyRiver FM.indd iv 6/29/09 12:32:34 PM For my daughter, Isabella, in memory of our women’s winter RainyRiver FM.indd v 6/29/09 12:32:34 PM RainyRiver FM.indd vi 6/29/09 12:32:34 PM C ONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Introduction xxix Historical Context and Chronology lvii ONE Men and Women 1. She Got In with Him Again After They Were Widows 3 2. Why Didn’t You Take Good Care of Her While I Was Away? 15 3. You Can Have Him All to Yourself 21 4. He Made Up His Mind to Look After Her 25 5. The Wind Took the Canoe Right Across the Lake 35 TWO Parents and Children 6. We Will Take You and Love You as Our Very Own Daughter 43 7. Her Father Was Sitting with His Head Down with Tears in His Eyes 49 8. I’ll Show That Man That Stole My Daughter Away from Me 55 9. A Very Young Man Adopted Them for Parents 61 10. They Moved On to Different Places 67 THREE Siblings 11. Oh, Can’t You Find a Place in Your Heart for Me? 73 12. They Made Up Their Mind Not to Let Their Son-in-Law Go 79 13. If You Stop Along, I Will Give Youse a Lunch 83 14. She Liked Him as a Brother 89 RainyRiver FM.indd vii 6/29/09 12:32:34 PM FOUR Women Alone 15. Cloud Woman, the Fast Runner 97 16. Her Dead Grandmother Told Her to Straighten Up 103 17. She Was Left There to Starve, but She Was Too Smart for That 111 18. Let Them Stay Single All They Want To 117 19. Why Do I Have to Die Now When I Have a Man and Children to Live For? 123 20. Leave Me Here to Starve Alone 127 21. The Old Woman Doctor 133 22. She Used to Make All Kinds of Little Things for Her Boy 139 FIVE Friends and Foes 23. I Have a Pawahgun That Gives Me the Power 147 24. It Won’t Be Her That Will Know 159 25. I Knew I Could Go There and Bring Home a Man for Myself 163 26. He Gave Her a Folded Birch-Bark Map 167 27. The Moose Was Wise Enough to Bring the Boy Back 175 28. She Knew the Bear Wanted Her to Go Someplace 181 29. She Knew That This Woman She Dreamed Was the Bear 191 30. I Want to Be Your Pawahgun 197 Acknowledgments 203 Notes 205 Glossary 215 References 221 Index 227 RainyRiver FM.indd viii 6/29/09 12:32:34 PM ILLUSTRATIONS FIGURES 1. Sample of handwritten story xix 2. Sample of editor’s verbatim transcription xx 3. Sample of last page and postscript of story 28 xxi 4. Maggie Wilson, 1932 xxii 5. Manitou Rapids, 1920 xxii 6. Maggie Wilson and daughter Christina, 1920 xxiii 7. Maggie Wilson’s daughter Christina, 1920 xxiii 8. Maggie Wilson, daughter Christina, and baby, 1920 xxiv 9. Maggie Wilson’s son Leonard and daughter Janet, 1932 xxv 10. Maggie Wilson’s daughter Janet, 1932 xxv 11. Maggie Wilson’s daughter Christina, with her husband, children, and mother-in-law, 1932 xxvi 12. Maggie Wilson at Manitou Rapids, 1932 xxvi 13. Birch-bark wigwam at Manitou Rapids, 1920 xxvii 14. Cooking fi re at Manitou Rapids, 1920 xxviii 15. At the maple-sugar camp, ca. 1930 2 16. Canoes in the wild-rice beds, ca. 1912 2 17. Family traveling by canoe, 1911 42 18. Selling blueberries in Kenora, ca. 1912 42 19. Drying fi sh at Lake of the Woods, ca. 1912 72 20. Spreading rice to dry, ca. 1920 72 RainyRiver FM.indd ix 6/29/09 12:32:34 PM

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