...David J. Silverman Book Reviews 189 Gifts from the Thunder Beings: Indigenous Archery and European Firearms in the Northern Plains and the Central Subarctic, 1670–1870. By Roland Bohr. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. xv + 468 pp...

...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...

... members. 6 As Sam mentioned, that system ended when the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) built rail lines through the region; trains now provided transportation to Thunder Bay and made transportation to the west more cost-effective (Rogers 1994 : 344). Major changes followed the CPR’s completion...

..., 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...

...: 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...

... of company traders. Within a year of their meeting at Thunder Bay, La Vérendrye had established a trading post (Fort Saint-Pierre) adjacent to La Colle’s village at Rainy Lake. Although La Vérendrye had intended Fort Saint-Pierre only as a staging ground for his push into Lake of the Woods and Lake...

.... These people believed that the spirits controlled their destiny. A displeased spirit could cause drought, thunder, and even death. When pleased, these spirits could bring sun, rain, and bounties of food and game...

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.... 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...

... offended the lord of the Rab’inals, Lord Five Thunder, because he has incited revolt against him within the K’iche’ nation. The lineage and nobility of each of these two parties are clearly established and recognized in the text, an inclusion that speaks to the long-seated conflict preceding...

... 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...

..., this zigzag pattern represents the bands on the back of a snake, most especially the rattlesnake associated with rain, lightning—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...

... 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 . Moore James T. 1982 Indian and Jesuit: A Seventeenth...

... for the artist who drew the images at Joliet. A further complication is the identification of the “bird’s head” in the Joliet scene. As we noted earlier, McCleary ( 2016 : 132) suggests this is a “Thunder being” metaphorically reaching down out of the clouds to capture the enemy warrior. Clearly...

.... It inserts its bill in a tree; [hanging] there it shrinks, shrivels, molts. And when [the tree] sprouts, when it leafs out, at this time [the hummingbird] also grows feathers once again. And when it thunders for rain, at that time it awakens, moves, comes to life (Sahagún 1950–82 , bk. 11:24). Perhaps...

... interest in the cultural history of French Canada in the past couple of decades. For examples related to oral traditions, see Terence Crowley, ‘‘Thunder Gusts: Popular Disturbances in Early French Canada Canadian Historical Association Historical Papers for 1979 (Ottawa, 1979), 11– 31...

... 2003). Lightning, according to the Ipili, is the weapon of the sky men, and the thunder of the whites’ guns was said to be like the thunder associated with the sky men’s lightning strikes. As documented in a number of articles (Biersack 1996, 1998; Gibbs 1977; Jacka 2002; Meggitt 1973; Sharp...