The Island of the Anishnaabeg: Thunderers and Water Monsters in the Traditional Ojibwe Life-World Mi'kmaq and deeply moving

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At ceremonies and in daily life

Adam Jortner

The Island of the Anishnaabeg: Thunderers and Water Monsters in the Traditional Ojibwe Life-World Mi'kmaq and deeply movingIn this study, Theresa S. Smith explores the lived experience of the contemporary Ojibwes (or Anishnaabeg) amid the remarkable revival of both belief in and practice of the Ojibwe religion. Scholars have contended that traditional Ojibwe religion was gradually lost during the three centuries following Euro American contact. And yet even though traditional religion no longer exists as a plausibility structure for a hunting gathering culture, historic