Calling the Thunder, Part One: Animikeek, the Thunderstorm as Speech Event in the Anishinaabe Lifeworld

• Main Author: Smith, Theresa S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 1991
• Subjects: Ojibwa; Anishinaabeg; Thunderers; Thunderbird; manitouk; animikeek; ritual responses; anishina*
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8tc9d5cz

Like most native North Americans, the Ojibwa people of Ontario -or the Anishinaabeg, as they prefer to be addressed-have a complex system of belief and ritual associated with thunderstorms. Included in this system are a number of names by which storms, or Thunderers, are not only invoked and propiti...