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The anishinaabe told trickster stories of the summer heart as the snow covered the red pine and the rivers froze. The old world was a rumor of demonic seasons, seldom a source of tribal inspiration, and the vicious outcome of colonial invasions, discoveries, diseases, and the territorial boundaries levied on the woodland have never been absolved in the duplicities of treaties and histories. In the seventeenth century the voyageurs and the first missionaries established a fur trading post at mooningwanekaning on Madeline Island.

The anishinaabe (the plural is anishinaabeg), the original miigis people of the woodland, heard natural wisdom in their stories, and the colors of the seasons were given to the tribes by the sun on the back of the sacred cowrie. The reflection warmed the tribes on their long migration from the eastern sea. More than five hundred years ago the miigis appeared in the sun for the last time at mooningwanekaning, or mooningwane, the place of the yellow-shafted flicker, in anishinaabe gichigami, Lake Superior, the great sea of the original five tribal families of the anishinaabe.

Summer in the Spring: Anishinaabe Lyric Poems and Stories, New Edition, is Volume 6 in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series. Published by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. Copyright © 1965, 1970, 1981, 1993 by Gerald Vizenor. All rights reserved. A. First printing of the University of Oklahoma Press edition, 1993. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Page v IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER Clement William Vizenor if you wish to know me you must seek me in the clouds i am a bird who rises from the earth and flies far up into the skies out of human sight though not visible to the eye my voice is heard from afar and resounds over the earth KEESHKUMUN Anishinaabe Orator Page vi Page vii Contents Introduction 3 Anishinaabeg Lyric Poems 21 Anishinaabeg Stories and Tales 63 The Anishinaabeg 64 Naming Children 65 Anishinaabeg Women 68 Anishinaabeg Men 71 Tale of the Robin 73 Anishinaabeg Marriage 77 Anishinaabeg Spirit 81 The Midewiwin 89 Midewiwin Initiation 93 Birth of Naanabozho 100 Naanabozho Obtains Fire 104 Naanabozho and Nookomis 111 Naanabozho and Missameg 116 Return of Naanabozho 121 Naanabozho and his Father 124 Naanabozho and the Gambler 129 Interpretive Notes 133 Page Notes 142 Anishinaabemowin Glossary 158 Page 1 Summer in the Spring Page 3 Introduction "The clear sky loves to hear me sing" is a heartened invitation to the tribal dream songs translated as lyric poems in this book.

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