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Basil H. Johnston OOnt (13 July 1929 – 8 September 2015) was an Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) and Canadian writer, storyteller, language teacher and scholar. Biography
Basil H. Johnston, an Ojibwe teacher and scholar from Ontario, describes a wendigo: The Wendigo was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tightly over its bones. With its bones pushing out against its skin, its complexion the ash-gray of death, and its eyes pushed back deep into their sockets, the Wendigo looked like a ...
— Ojibwe writer and linguist Basil Johnston [27] Ojibwe religion has been described as polytheistic . [ 28 ] It maintains that human existence relies on maintaining relations with powerful beings, the manitouk or manidoog (singular manitou or manidoo ).
Johnston, Basil. Ojibway heritage. Columbia University Press (New York: 1976). Johnston, Basil. How the birds got their colours : Gah w'indinimowaut binaesheehnyuk w' ...
Basil Johnston also adds that Jiibayaabooz became the "Chief of the Underworld" and "bequeathed the spirit of music, chants, and poetry to the Anishinaubae peoples." [2]:49. Among the Abenakis, Mateguas from the dead taught his living brother Gluskab the rites and ceremonies of vision quests and purification ceremonies to comfort his grieving ...
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Wasauksing First Nation (formerly named as Parry Island First Nation, Ojibwe: Waaseyakosing, meaning: "Place that shines brightly in the reflection of the sacred light") [2] is an Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi First Nation band government whose reserve is located near Parry Sound in Ontario, Canada.
In addition to the Algonquian Anishinaabeg, many other tribes believed in Gitche Manitou.References to the Great Manitou by the Cheyenne and the Oglala Sioux (notably in the recollections of Black Elk), indicate that belief in this deity extended into the Great Plains, fully across the wider group of Algonquian peoples.