Recommended readings (Part VIII)

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"A colourful, beautiful book* which teaches us about ourselves as much as about one of North America's native peoples.''

- The Vancouver Sun

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Rarely accessible beyond the limits of its people, Ojibway mythology is as rich in meaning and mystery, as broad, as deep, and as innately appealing as the mythologies of Greece, Rome, Egypt, and other civilizations. In this volume Ojibway teacher Basil Johnston sets forth the broad spectrum of his people's life, legends, and beliefs. Stories to be read, enjoyed, dwelt on, and freely inter­preted, their authorship is perhaps most properly attributed to the tribal storytellers who have carried on the verbal tradition which Mr. Johnston records and preserves in this book.
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A teacher of Ojibway language, history, and mythology, Basil Johnston was educated in reserve schools in Ontario and at Loyola College in Montreal. Currently, Johnston works in the Department of Ethnology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Tbronto. Other titles that he has published are Moosemeat and Wild Rice, a collection of humorous stories about reserve life, and Ojibway Ceremonies, a companion volume to Ojibway Heritage.
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* "OJIBWAY HERITAGE" by Basil Johnston; © 1976 by McClelland & Stewart Inc., The Canadian Publishers; ISBN: 0-7710-4442-9; Cover Painting by Jackson Beardy - Courtesy of Royal Ontario Museum.