Representation in popular culture Ojibwe




1 representation in popular culture

1.1 literature
1.2 music
1.3 film
1.4 television





representation in popular culture
literature

in story, fathers , sons , ernest hemingway uses 2 ojibwe secondary characters.
the legend of ojibwe wendigo, in tribesmen identify cannibalistic monster , prey on families, has many levels of meaning. points consequences of greed , destruction can cause. european-american authors algernon blackwood, thomas pynchon, ramsey campbell , stephen king have referred story in fiction. has been co-opted cthulhu mythos august derleth , subsequently number of other authors.
novelist louise erdrich (ojibwe) has written people , culture in numerous novels based in fictional settlements, including tracks, love medicine, bingo palace , round house, among others. novels cover range of history , individuals, returning fictional families on time, , complex relations between anishinaabe , europeans.
keewaydinoquay peschel, medicine woman, has written books on ethnobotany , books children.
gerald vizenor (ojibwe), literary theorist , writer, has drawn extensively on anishinaabe philosophies of language.
william kent krueger has written series of crime novels chronicling adventures of character named corcoran cork o connor, ojibwe partial european ancestry works sheriff of aurora, minnesota. novels express how cork uses both ojibwe , irish-american heritage solve local crimes. ojibwe spirituality important element of subtext of many of storylines.
in elmore leonard s killshot, hit man armand blackbird degas ojibway , french canadian (also known metis, many of these mixed-race people banded , formed own culture).

music

composer ferde grofe composed movement, father of waters , of mississippi suite, represents chippewa indians , headwaters of mississippi.

film

chauncey yellow robe collaborated american museum of natural history produce silent enemy, first movie , documentary all-indian cast. production attempt capture on film authentic life style of pre-columbian indians, , portrayed ojibwe in canada faced silent enemy of hunger.

television

obediah johnny yesno, ojibwe actor isolated ojibwe-cree community of fort hope on albany river in ontario. played cree north ontario coming toronto work, in first episode of first series of wojeck, canadian tv drama, in 1966.
in several episodes of hbo series sopranos (e.g., mayham , fleshy part of thigh ), tony soprano recovers gunshot wound. reflects on ojibwe saying left bed: go in pity myself, , while, great wind carries me across sky .




^ cork o connor , thrilling detective
^ obediah johnny yesno [footprints] - windspeaker - ammsa . www.ammsa.com. 
^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0749935/






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