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Michael Pomedli -- Book Launch

Thursday Apr 24 2014 7:00 pm, Saskatoon, Travel Alcove
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Living with Animals: Ojibwe Spirit Powers (University of Toronto Press)

In Living with Animals: Ojibwe Spirit Powers, Michael Pomedli examines 19th-century Ojibwe medicine societies and communities at large. He finds that animals are realities and symbols of cultural principles of North American Ojibwe nations. Living with Animals presents over 100 images from oral and written sources – including birch bark scrolls, rock art, stories, games, and dreams – in which animals appear as kindred beings, spirit powers, healers, and protectors. The principles at play are not merely evidence of cultural values, but are also unique standards brought to treaty signings by Ojibwe leaders. In addition, these principles are norms against which North American treaty interpretations should be reframed. Contemporary Ojibwe corroborate that animals are an important foundation for ways of leading a good, integrated life.

Michael Pomedli, PhD, is professor emeritus of philosophy at St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan. He also taught at First Nations University of Canada.

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Living with Animals

- Michael Pomedli

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Within nineteenth-century Ojibwe/Chippewa medicine societies, and in communities at large, animals are realities and symbols that demonstrate cultural principles of North American Ojibwe nations. Living with Animals presents over 100 images from oral and written sources - including birch bark scrolls, rock art, stories, games, and dreams - in which animals appear as kindred beings, spirit powers, healers, and protectors.

Michael Pomedli shows that the principles at play in these sources are not merely evidence of cultural values, but also unique standards brought to treaty signings by Ojibwe leaders. In addition, these principles are norms against which North American treaty interpretations should be reframed. The author provides an important foundation for ongoing treaty negotiations, and for what contemporary Ojibwe cultural figures corroborate as ways of leading a good, integrated life.