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!SOUR: Ruth Landes. Ojibwa Sociology. Columbia, 1937. p. 42
He and John Brown (Kingfisher Dodem) married "own" sisters; hence they should
be brothers alike within the kinship and the gens system (bird phratry). But
actually they call one another "brother-in-law" because they have always joked.
Kinship terminology in accordance with existing personal behavior rather than
with birth status occurs also between opposite
sexes.
!SOUR: Ruth Landes. Ojibwa Sociology. Columbia, 1937. p. 70
!SOUR: Ruth Landes. Ojibwa Sociology. Columbia, 1937. p. 70, a chief at Big
Island, Rainy Lake, Duck dodem, had three wives. Two lived with the chief, and
the third stayed at Sabaskang. The three were unrelated, and each had a
different dodem. One was Caribou, one Crane, and one Moose. Each wife lived
in a separate tent. Had the chief gone first, each of three wives would
individually have had to give the gens indemnity goods. But wo of the chief's
wives died before their husband, and the chief had to pay goods to each of
their gentes. The chief continued living with his third young wife; he died
first, and she had to pay the gens
goods.
!SOUR: Ruth Landes. Ojibwa Sociology. Columbia, 1937. p. 71
!SOUR: Ruth Landes. Ojibwa Sociology. Columbia, 1937. p. 42
!SOUR: Ruth Landes. Ojibwa Sociology. Columbia, 1937. p. 141.
Midwife in 1932 on the Manitou reserve, she acted as midwife just once, as
emergency nurse for her mother at 14 years of age. Nevertheless, despite her
youth, Ida is now qualified as
nurse.
!SOUR: Ruth Landes. Ojibwa Sociology. Columbia, 1937. p. 57, married his
"own" mother's brother's daughter. Maggie says tht some peole objected, but
apparently criticisms were not bitter enough to deter the
couple.
!SOUR: Ruth Landes. Ojibwa Sociology. Columbia, 1937. p. 56, a White man
!SOUR: Ruth Landes. Ojibwa Sociology. Columbia, 1937. p. 24
!SOUR: Ruth Landes. Ojibwa Sociology. Columbia, 1937. p. 58
!SOUR: Ruth Landes. Ojibwa Sociology. Columbia, 1937. p. 23
p. 25. When Mrs. Wilson visited at Ponemah, about one hundred miles south of
her home at Emo, she received great amounts of a variety of garden products
from Mrs. Daisy who is her classificatory sister in law.
p.
58
!SOUR: Ruth Landes. Ojibwa Sociology. Columbia, 1937. p. 82
!SOUR: Ruth Landes. Ojibwa Sociology. Columbia, 1937. p. 82
!SOUR: Ruth Landes. Ojibwa Sociology. Columbia, 1937. p. 80, p. 130
!SOUR: Ruth Landes. Ojibwa Sociology. Columbia, 1937. p. 83
[one of the seven monogamous men of the past generation]. Closely related
"brothers and cousins" with Kekekobine.s (Caribou), Pepamanakwa't (Caribou),
Chief Namepok (Caribou), RedHawk and Charlie Hawk (Caribous), Nauuka'mik
(Eagle), and Chief George
(Bear).
!SOUR: Ruth Landes. Ojibwa Sociology. Columbia, 1937. p. 124
There have recently been several nanandawi iwewininis on the Manitou
reserve: Old Bombay, Jack M'Ginnis #2, Billy B'binnis (no relation to Jack),
Old Brown (classificatory mother's brother to Billy), Dan Hawk, Mrs. Jack
Namepok, Fred Black. The dogma is that there can be no tramsission of power
between persons.
p. 130, p. 135
p. 138. [practicioner of] second minor doctoring specialty... ciga.gowe'iwe,
causing gagging and vomiting. Treatment is realistic. The medicine is given
for any stomach ailment, or bad cough. [listed as "father's brother" of John
Wilson]
p. 139. [practioner of] third specialty ... macKiKiwabo.ke, herb-brewing.
This covers all the Ojibwa drug realm not covered by the [other] two
specialities... [including among the] most prominent herbalists at Manitou.
[listed as brother's son of Namepok, Kebegabau and
Kekekobines].
!SOUR: Ruth Landes. Ojibwa Sociology. Columbia, 1937. p. 82
!SOUR: Ruth Landes. Ojibwa Sociology. Columbia, 1937. p. 23
Johnny Hawk "takes Leonard Wilson for his brother" because both are of the same
Duck Dodem; therefore he jokes with Leonard's wife Agnes, who is consequently
his "sister-in-law." Mrs. Hawk jokes in the same way with Leonard because of
his relationship with her
husband.
!SOUR: Ruth Landes. Ojibwa Sociology. Columbia, 1937. p. 83
[one of the seven monogamous men of the past generation]. Closely related
"brothers and cousins" with Kekekobine.s (Caribou), Pepamanakwa't (Caribou),
Chief Namepok (Caribou), RedHawk and Charlie Hawk (Caribous), Nauuka'mik
(Eagle), and Chief George
(Bear).