...David J. Silverman Gifts from the Thunder Beings: Indigenous Archery and European Firearms in the Northern Plains and the Central Subarctic, 1670–1870 . By Bohr Roland . ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2014 . xv + 468 pp., illustrations, preface, appendix, glossary, notes...

...Grant Arndt This article shows that Crashing Thunder (1926), recognized as the first book-length American Indian autobiography published by an anthropologist, contains multiple, nested accounts of a pivotal moment in the life of its Ho-Chunk author, Sam Blowsnake: the killing of a man in 1903...

... traditions. Slate Falls is located in northwestern Ontario, approximately 600 kilometers northwest of Thunder Bay and 120 kilometers north of Sioux Lookout (see fig. 1 ). People self-identify as Anishinabeg. English and Ojibwa are the spoken languages. In 1905, the government of Canada sent...

..., marry, and communicate and fornicate with humans is common in Lakota mythology. The Thunder Beings ( Wakį́yą , “Flying Ones”) of the west are significant in Sioux mythology, dreams/visions, ritual, and life and illustrative of Lakota animism. The glance of these powerful and terrifying creator...

.... Higgins. (University Park, pa: Penn State University Press, 1999. xii + 236 pp., introduction, maps, appendix, bibliography, index. $22.50 paper.) A Refuge in Thunder: Candomblé and Alternative Spaces of Blackness...

... of which are illustrated. Brosseder interprets the items found on the mountaintop, which include human figurines wearing feathered headdresses, to explain how Inka ideologues used feathers and associated items to communicate with various instantiations of the Inka cosmic deities: Sun, Moon, and Thunder...

...: half-breed rights under the NW Angle Treaty (No. 3), 1875 . MU1391, Box 7-9, Item 1 Mattagami, Temiskaming District Indian Accounts (HBC) , 1784-1893 (Fur Trade Papers F431);Box 7-9, Item 1 (Matawagamingue 1828). Arthur, Elizabeth 1973 Thunder Bay District 1821-92: A Collection...

... in exchange for valuable information. La Colle’s meeting with La Vérendrye took place on the shores of a large bay, which the Anishinaabeg called Animikii-wiikwedong (Thunder Bay). Bordering the east end of Thunder Bay, the Sibley Peninsula’s mesas include a rock formation called the Sleeping Giant. One...

.... A displeased spirit could cause drought, thunder, and even death. When pleased, these spirits could bring sun, rain, and bounties of food and game. Soon man came to believe he must honor, respect, and pay homage...

... Fruit Granizo Lup Hail Trueno Tile Thunder Relampago Nenmem Lightning Nuve Mol Cloud Helada Chosi Cold Hielo Chosi Ice Fuego U U Fire Lumbre Bola Fire Sombrio Capan Somber Dia Gauguc Day Noche Pusta Night Mañana Ya Morning Tarde Toana...

.... Daramulun [Dharramulan]: Among the Kamilaroi and later the Wiradjuri, Daramulun was the ‘‘boy’’ or son of Baiame and identified with Baiame’s bullroarer/thunder voice (H, Darrawirgal: ‘‘a native deity’’ (G, See...

... for a floating island. The sails seem to be clouds or (in the Subarctic) floating ice. Or per- haps it is a bird, spouting thunder and lightning. The bearded Europeans are thought to be bears not humans. Many stories have the natives won- dering if the Europeans are human at all until they get to know them...

... learned from the medicine man. ‘‘They spoiled the power of his holy things, and tempted Mingo Ishto Elóa, ‘the great chieftain of thunder,’ to bind the clouds, and withhold the rain41 The Cherokees believed that youthful transgressions brought not only drought but also sickness. The Cherokees...

..., those of the Rab’inals and the K’iche’s, respectively, and they are enemies. Their conflict is both territorial and social: Kaweq believes that his people possess the right to some of the Rab’inal territory, but he has also offended the lord of the Rab’inals, Lord Five Thunder, because he has incited...

... and destroyed two monstrous killer whales. This violent struggle was followed by a great storm, with lightning and a crashing ‘‘thunder-noise’’ accom- panying ‘‘a shaking, jumping up and trembling of the earth beneath...

...—which is also seen as a zigzag pattern—and thunder. It should be recalled that Tojojil, Thunder/Lightning, was the patron daemon of the K’iche’ as recorded by the Kaqchikel in the early 1500s (Maxwell and Hill 2006). Today, however, the kumatzin pattern references more than the snake with its...

..., Activism . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press . Miller J. R. 1996 Shingwauk’s Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools . Toronto : University of Toronto Press . Monture Patricia A. 1995 Thunder in My Soul: A Mohawk Woman Speaks . Halifax, NS : Fernwood...

..., there was such a “great and horrible thunder and commotion of chairs and tables, felt and heard” that don Andrés woke his servants, who, subsequently, fell ill. 57 After administering extreme unction to an ailing woman on 30 December, don Andrés was informed of yet another domestic haunting. A “horrible noise...

... scene, which he suggests is a “Thunder being” metaphorically reaching down out of the clouds to capture the enemy warrior. Although not in its usual form, the presence of a bird (especially with a long neck) could, in theory, parallel White Swan’s use of swan as a name glyph in several of his works (e.g...

... of sprouting is called xopan, literally “the green time,” the rainy season (Kartunnen 1992 : 331). It is the arrival of xopan that will complete the transformation of the hummingbird: “and when it thunders for rain, at that time it awakens, moves, comes back to life.” The hummingbird, then, is “dry...