Word: ojibways
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...years ago a tall Ojibway Indian named Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin, which he translates as Grey Owl, headed west from northern Ontario with a family of beaver. With a view to popularizing his campaign to preserve wild life, Grey Owl had started a colony of these engaging little animals, written books about them, lectured in Canada and England, was rewarded when the Canadian National Park Service provided him with a permanent establishment in Prince Albert National Park (northern Saskatchewan). The mainstays of Grey Owl's beaver colony were a husky intelligent male called Rawhide, and a chattery...
Ceramist Aitken has also served as a guide in the Ontario woods, been adopted by the Ojibway Indians with the tribal name of Lackwinni Mangoon (Lone Wolf). He teaches sculpture and plays polo at White Sulphur. He once flew a planeload of pottery from Cleveland to Newark, paddled through Germany in a kayak, crossed Austria on skis, engaged in sabre duels with the student Korps Hilaritas of Vienna. Polo, aviation, duck shooting and skeet are his favorite recreations...
...Pete was the first and only legitimate child of his mother Mabel, an Ojibway Indian girl of northern Michigan. Later he had a sister and two brothers. When Mabel's husband deserted her, she was glad that she would no longer be beaten, then wondered how she would support her baby. For a while she managed, by weaving baskets and selling them to summer tourists. Then she cooked for a logging camp. Then she took men. Joe Pete grew, watched what was going on loved his mother, took care of the other children, said nothing. When the Lithuanian Jaakkola...
Miss Alice Longfellow (daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow): " My two sisters (Mrs. Thorpe and Mrs. Dana) and I have been invited by the Ojibway Indians at Saute Sainte Marie to attend their presentation of Hiawatha on August...
...Ojibway, Indian Melodies, Carousal. Youth's Song. In the Forest. Waubunosa's Longing. War Song. Lonely...