Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native Culture in Motion
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Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native Culture in Motion

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In the early nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries evangelical hymns into the Ojibwe language, regarding this music not only as a shared form of worship but also as a tool for rooting out native cultural identity. But for many Minnesota Ojibwe today, the hymns emerged from this history of material and cultural dispossession to become emblematic of their identity as a distinct native people.
Author Michael McNally uses hymn singing as a lens to view culture in motion—to consider the broader cultural processes through which Native American peoples have creatively drawn on the resources of ritual to make room for survival, integrity, and a cultural identity within the confines of colonialism.
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In the early nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries evangelical hymns into the Ojibwe language, regarding this music not only as a shared form of worship but also as a tool for rooting out native cultural identity. But for many Minnesota Ojibwe today, the hymns emerged from this history of material and cultural dispossession to become emblematic of their identity as a distinct native people.
Author Michael McNally uses hymn singing as a lens to view culture in motion—to consider the broader cultural processes through which Native American peoples have creatively drawn on the resources of ritual to make room for survival, integrity, and a cultural identity within the confines of colonialism.

About the Author

Michael D. McNally is the John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies at Carleton College (Minnesota). He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017-18 for the writing of DEFEND THE SACRED: NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM BEYOND THE FIRST AMENDMENT (2020), for which he was also awarded a Mellon New Directions Fellowship to gain targeted training in law. An historian of religion in America, McNally received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in the Study of Religion in 1996, though many of his most important teachers have been Anishinaabe elders from White Earth and Leech Lake. His first book, OJIBWE SINGERS (2000) was recognized with the Great Lakes Book Award and was issued in paperback in 2009. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Sabbatical Fellowship for his second book, HONORING ELDERS (2009).

Details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Minnesota Historical Society Press; 1st edition (February 1, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0873516419
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0873516419
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches

Additional information

Weight 0.89 lbs
Dimensions 8.98 × 6.06 × 0.78 in
Publisher ‏

‎ Minnesota Historical Society Press; 1st edition (February 1, 2009)
Language ‏

‎ English
Paperback ‏

‎ 264 pages
ISBN-10 ‏

‎ 0873516419
ISBN-13 ‏

‎ 978-0873516419
Item Weight ‏

‎ 14.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏

‎ 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches

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