Yamoria the lawmaker : stories of the Dene
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1896300200
ISBN 13
9781896300207
Category
General Library Collection
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Publication Year
1997
Publisher
NeWest Press, Canada
Pages
239
Subject
Dene -- Folklore
Abstract
""Yamoria is the great medicine man who came to change the lives of the Dene and encourage them to care for each other and establish equality. But where did he come from? Who sent him? One southern tribe in Denendeh says he was the Creator, or God, who lived among us and then went away.
Like a moosehide cape flowing from his shoulders, the legends of Yamoria sweep behind him across thousands of years."
Medicine men and women receive their keen psychological abilities and powers from the Creator and are highly prized by their people. Their simply told oral stories are gifts of deep wisdom that span thousands of years. The stories and the wisdom are timeless and offer as much to the listener today as they did to the ones centuries ago.
Yamoria the Lawmaker is a profound offering of Dene history, culture, and spiritualism. It is a spiritual guidebook that weaves oral stories together with the history of how the Northern Canadian Dene came to depend on the European fur traders. Luxury items, Christianity, outside diseases, and treaty misunderstanding were all factors that served to irreparably weaken this strong First Nations culture. The medicine power of the stories guides the Dene culture to survival through the onslaught of cultural invasion. Elder George Blondin has collected these stories from Dene elders to help preserve the Dene culture for the generations to follow.
George Blondin is a Dene Elder who was born in 1923 in the Northwest Territories. He has been a wilderness guide, a miner, a trapper, Vice President of the Dene Nation, and in 1989 was elected Chairman of the Denendah Elder's Council. He now works part-time with the Dene Cultural Institution and writes articles for local newspapers. In 1990, Mr. Blondin was he recipient of the annual Ross Charles Award for native journalism. He is the author of When The World Was New."--Back cover.
Like a moosehide cape flowing from his shoulders, the legends of Yamoria sweep behind him across thousands of years."
Medicine men and women receive their keen psychological abilities and powers from the Creator and are highly prized by their people. Their simply told oral stories are gifts of deep wisdom that span thousands of years. The stories and the wisdom are timeless and offer as much to the listener today as they did to the ones centuries ago.
Yamoria the Lawmaker is a profound offering of Dene history, culture, and spiritualism. It is a spiritual guidebook that weaves oral stories together with the history of how the Northern Canadian Dene came to depend on the European fur traders. Luxury items, Christianity, outside diseases, and treaty misunderstanding were all factors that served to irreparably weaken this strong First Nations culture. The medicine power of the stories guides the Dene culture to survival through the onslaught of cultural invasion. Elder George Blondin has collected these stories from Dene elders to help preserve the Dene culture for the generations to follow.
George Blondin is a Dene Elder who was born in 1923 in the Northwest Territories. He has been a wilderness guide, a miner, a trapper, Vice President of the Dene Nation, and in 1989 was elected Chairman of the Denendah Elder's Council. He now works part-time with the Dene Cultural Institution and writes articles for local newspapers. In 1990, Mr. Blondin was he recipient of the annual Ross Charles Award for native journalism. He is the author of When The World Was New."--Back cover.
Description
xii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Biblio Notes
Contents:
Everyday use of medicine
History of the Dene
Medicine power
Yamoria's great Dene medicine laws
Great medicine people
Survival and medicine power
Medicine and tribal conflict
Healing and medicine power
Living on the land with animals
Helping each other
Memories of a past time
Into the future
Biographies.
Everyday use of medicine
History of the Dene
Medicine power
Yamoria's great Dene medicine laws
Great medicine people
Survival and medicine power
Medicine and tribal conflict
Healing and medicine power
Living on the land with animals
Helping each other
Memories of a past time
Into the future
Biographies.
Number of Copies
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