The Indians of the northwestern plains always laughed at the tales about Old -man, heard around the lodge fire in the wintertime after sunset. For a powerful character, he was comically flawed. Old -man made the world but sometimes forgot the names of things. Victim and victimizer, he seemed closer to common experience than the awesome god Manitou. Frank B. Linderman thought Old -man was, under different names, a god for many Indian communities. These stories--collected from Chippewa and Cree elders and first published ...
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The Indians of the northwestern plains always laughed at the tales about Old -man, heard around the lodge fire in the wintertime after sunset. For a powerful character, he was comically flawed. Old -man made the world but sometimes forgot the names of things. Victim and victimizer, he seemed closer to common experience than the awesome god Manitou. Frank B. Linderman thought Old -man was, under different names, a god for many Indian communities. These stories--collected from Chippewa and Cree elders and first published in 1920--are full of wonder at the way things are. Why children lose their teeth, why eyesight fails with age, why dogs howl at night, why some animals wear camouflage--these and other mysteries, large and small, are made vividly sensible.
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