Tales the Elders Told: Ojibway Legends PDF
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B5I 3 sn 1 fS 1 Rj fsi 15 |r^ {jfS NUNC COCNOSCO EX PARTE THOM7^i~B^TA LIBRARY TRENT UNIVERSITY Tales the Elders Told Tales the Elders Told Ojibway Legends Basil H. Johnston Paintings and drawings by Shirley Cheechoo ROM Royal Ontario Museum I I'IlN I UNi ? - "cTERaOROUGH, O © Royal Ontario Museum, 1981 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada MSS 2C6 ISBN 0-88854-261-5 Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Johnston, Basil H., 1929- Tales the elders told ISBN 0-88854-261-5 (bound) I. Ojibwa Indians — Legends.* 2. Indians of North America — Legends. I, Royal Ontario Museum. II. Title. E99.C6I624 398.2097 C81-094102-3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to thank the elders of the Ojibway peoples for these stories and particularly Wahwahskgone for her permission to include The first butterflies, How bats came to be, and Thunderbirds and fireflies in this collection. My thanks go also to Mrs. Pat Urquhart for fyping the stories. Printed and bound in Canada by THE ALGER PRESS The Legends Mother, we will never leave you 9 The first butterflies 12 Why birds go south in winter 17 How bats came to be 26 How spiders came to be 31 How dogs came to be 36 Thunderbirds and fireflies 40 The “close your eyes" dance 46 Waugoosh and Myeengun 56 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive. rg/details/taleselderstoldoOOOOjohn 0
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