Memengwaawid, to be a butterfly: an Indigenous exploration of Northwestern Ontario Anishinawbe and Muskego or Ininiw sacred stories and teachings in a contemporary novel

• Main Author: Farrell-Morneau, Amy Lynn
• Other Authors: Iseke, Judy, Wolf, Sandra, Leggatt, Judith, Bedard, Renee
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Elders and teachers as storytellers; Indigenous storytelling; Indigenous storytelling as methodology; Oral traditions; Sacred stories; Seven Grandfather teachings education; Archibald; anishina*
• Online Access: http://knowledgecommons.lakeheadu.ca/handle/2453/569

Among their capacities to entertain, to pass down cultural traditions, ceremonies, dances, songs, and to correct undesired behaviours, sacred stories explain how something in nature came to be and how our interactions with those creatures and other life forms around us lead into actions of establish...