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• Title:Sounding thunder : the stories of Francis Pegahmagabow / Brian D. McInnes ; foreword by Waubgeshig Rice.
  
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• Author/Creator:McInnes, Brian D., author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Pegahmagabow, Francis, 1891-1952.
  Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2016]
  ©2016
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: CBH P44 S68 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Ojibwa--Languages
  Ojibwa--History--Ontario--Georgian Bay
  Ojibwa--Culture--History--Ontario--Georgian Bay
  Ojibwa--Leadership
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Pegahmagabow, Francis, 1891-1952.
  Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Expeditionary Force--Biography.
  Wasauksing First Nation--Biography.
  Parry Sound (Ont.)--Biography.
  
• Description:xvi, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  
• Series:American Indian studies series.
  
• Summary:"Francis Pegahmagabow (1889-1952), a member of the Ojibwe nation, was born in Shawanaga, Ontario. Enlisting at the onset of the First World War, he became the most decorated Canadian Indigenous soldier for bravery and the most accomplished sniper in North American military history. After the war, Pegahmagabow settled in Wasauksing, Ontario. He served his community as both chief and councillor and belonged to the Brotherhood of Canadian Indians, an early national Indigenous political organization. Francis proudly served a term as Supreme Chief of the National Indian Government, retiring from office in 1950. Francis Pegahmagabow's stories describe many parts of his life and are characterized by classic Ojibwe narrative. They reveal aspects of Francis's Anishinaabe life and worldview. Interceding chapters by Brian McInnes provide valuable cultural, spiritual, linguistic, and historic insights that give a greater context and application for Francis's words and world. Presented in their original Ojibwe as well as in English translation, the stories also reveal a rich and evocative relationship to the lands and waters of Georgian Bay. In Sounding Thunder, Brian McInnes provides new perspective on Pegahmagabow and his experience through a unique synthesis of Ojibwe oral history, historical record, and Pegahmagabow family stories." -- From back cover.
  
• Notes:Includes note on orthographyc and pronunciation of Ojibwe terms.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  Text in English with passages, terms, and phrases in Ojibwemowin / Anishinabemowin.
  
• ISBN:9781611862256 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  1611862256 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Foreword / Waubgeshig Rice
  Introduction
  Ngii-zaagidimin - We so loved each other
  Stories as a means of understanding life
  Thirty Thousand Islands
  Indigenous life and community in Georgian Bay
  Nimkiik - The Thunders
  Wind, rock and water: maps and names at Wasauksing and Shawanaga
  Nishnaabemwin - Language of the people and the land
  Language, culture, and story
  Gchi-Ngig - The Giant Otter
  Learning from stories
  Enawendiying - We are all related
  Family
  Tkwaans - The dead branch
  An Indian at war
  Enendaagwak bmaadziwin - What is expected of life
  Community life
  Ndedem gaa-giiwed - When my father went home
  The fourth day
  Gchi-Mishoomisaatig - Grandfather Tree
  Epilogue
  Mnidoo - The Spirit.