Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native American Culture in Motion Métis of memory and imagination

of memory and imagination

Weiden is a powerful new voice

and soon there will be books and blankets and the big armchair by the fire

In the words of one official: "Kill the Indian and save the man

He sought understanding and inspiration in the stories of his mother

Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native American Culture in Motion Métis of memory and imaginationIn the early nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries promoted the translation of evangelical hymns into the Ojibwe language, regarding this music not only as a shared form of worship but also as a tool for rooting out Native cultural identity. But for many Minnesota Ojibwe today, the hymns emerged from this history of material and cultural dispossession to become emblematic of their identity as a distinct Native people. Author Michael McNally uses