Sounding thunder
Subtitle: the stories of Francis Pegahmagabow
By: Brian D. McInnes ; foreword by Waubgeshig Rice
Series: American Indian studies series; American Indi/+an studies series
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781611862256
Subjects: Canada; World War, 1914-1918; Biography; Folklore; Indian soldiers; Ojibwa Indians; Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Expeditionary Force; Indian Participation
Description: "Francis Pegahmagabow (1889-1952), a member of the Ojibwe nation, was born in Shawanaga, Ontario. Enlisting at the onset of the First World War, he became the most decorated Canadian Indigenous soldier for bravery and the most accomplished sniper in North American military history. After the war, Pegahmagabow settled in Wasauksing, Ontario. He served his community as both chief and councillor and belonged to the Brotherhood of Canadian Indians, an early national Indigenous political organization. Francis proudly served a term as Supreme Chief of the National Indian Government, retiring from office in 1950. Francis Pegahmagabow's stories describe many parts of his life and are characterized by classic Ojibwe narrative. They reveal aspects of Francis's Anishinaabe life and worldview. Interceding chapters by Brian McInnes provide valuable cultural, spiritual, linguistic, and historic insights that give a greater context and application for Francis's words and world. Presented in their original Ojibwe as well as in English translation, the stories also reveal a rich and evocative relationship to the lands and waters of Georgian Bay. In Sounding Thunder, Brian McInnes provides new perspective on Pegahmagabow and his experience through a unique synthesis of Ojibwe oral history, historical record, and Pegahmagabow family stories."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-216) and index.
Table of contents: title: Stories as a means of understanding life; title: Indigenous life in the Georgian Bay; title: Wind, rock and water: maps and names at Wasauksing and Shawanaga; title: Language, culture, and story; title: Learning from stories; title: Family; title: An Indian at war; title: Community life; title: The fourth day; title: Epilogue.