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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright (c) 1990 by the University of Iowa All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 1990
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Ridington, Robin. Little bit know something: stories in a language of anthropology/by Robin Ridington.-1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-87745-268-7 (alk. paper), ISBN 0-87745-286-5 (pbk., alk. paper) 1. Tsattine Indians-Religion and mythology. 2. Tsattine Indians-Philosophy. 3. Oral tradition-British Columbia. I. Title. E99.T77R523 1990 89-48164 299'.782-dc20 CIP
Page v
For Jumbie
Page vii
CONTENTS
Foreword
ix
Introduction
xiii
1 Stories in a Language
1
Fox and Chickadee
5
Telling Secrets: Stories of the Vision Quest
14
A True Story
22
Eye on the Wheel
30
2 The World of the Hunters
49
Beaver Indian Dreaming and Singing
52
From Hunt Chief to Prophet: Beaver Indian Dreamers and Christianity
64
Technology, World View, and Adaptive Strategy in a Northern Hunting Society
84
Knowledge, Power, and the Individual in Subarctic Hunting Societies
100
3 The Politics of Experience
119
Sequence and Hierarchy in Cultural Experience: Phases and the Moment of Transformation
123
The Medicine Fight: An Instrument of Political Process among the Beaver Indians
144
Wechuge and Windigo: A Comparison of Cannibal Belief among Boreal Forest Athapaskans and Algonquians
160
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4 The Problem of Discourse
183
Cultures in Conflict: The Problem of Discourse
186
When Poison Gas Come down Like a Fog: A Native Community's Response to Cultural Disaster
206
In Doig People's Ears: Portrait of a Changing Community in Sound
225
Documenting the Normal, Perverting the Real: Contrasting Images of Native Indian Experience
240
Epilogue
259
Appendix
261
References
263
Index
273
Page ix
FOREWORD
I dedicate this book to Augustine Jumbie, one of the many Dunne-za elders who first taught me a little bit about what it means to "know something." He is still alive on this world as I put these stories together. Jumbie remembers what I looked like when the horse I was riding stepped on a hornet's nest in a tangle of mountain blowdown. He still laughs when he sees me. I have many other teachers to thank. Johnny Chipesia was a magical presence in my life. In his later years, kids called him Little Green Man for his sense of the fantastic. His nickname was Wuscide, "Storyteller." The name became Johnny Bullshit in English.
One of Johnny's stories that was not bullshit gave me an insight into Jumbie's character. Once, the two of them were trapping in territory that was more than a hundred miles from their winter cabins. Wolverine, who is boss for the furs, was giving to them richly. They took his gifts from traps that seemed never to be empty. They had no time to hunt. They kept only enough drymeat and bannock to provision themselves on a quick run back along the well-broken toboggan trail home. At the last possible moment, Wuscide and Jumbie began their return. They expected to run their richly laden toboggan late into the night for several days in succession.
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