Title:
Birds through indigenous eyes : Native perspectives on birds of the eastern woodlands
Author:
Publication Date:
2024
Publication Information:
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2024]
Physical Description:
163 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780691250847
Abstract:
"Drawing on verbatim interviews with an Algonquin and an Ojibwe elder, this book details the meaning and use of birds in North American Indigenous communities as helpers and teachers in spiritual, psychological, and social life"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
View from above -- Bird messengers, totems, lessons -- Messages of color -- Natural law and original instructions: consequences, changes, connections -- Awareness and natural law -- Afterthoughts.
Genre:
Language:
English
