Lies to Live By

by Lois Beardslee

Overview

Lies To Live By brings together two selections of stories by Ojibwe storyteller Lois Beardslee. “Lies to Live By,” a series of interdependent tales, reflects the storyteller’s role in interpreting traditional stories for contemporary audiences, while preserving traditions based not in mysticism but in pragmatism. In “Calm Days,” three generations—the narrator, her grandfather, and her son—spend a week together on a remote island during the course of which they demonstrate the continuity of Ojibwe life. Together these stories weave the contemporary and the traditional to show how cultural diversity can be preserved even as cultural boundaries are transcended.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781628951974
Publisher:	Michigan State University Press
Publication date:	06/30/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	151
File size:	989 KB

About the Author

Lois Beardslee has been a teacher and writer for twenty-five years. She is also an accomplished artist, whose works are in public and private collections worldwide. Beardslee practices many traditional art forms, including birch bark biting, quillwork, and sweetgrass basketry, as well as painting and illustration

Table of Contents

CONTENTS Introduction Lies to Live By Dibawjimot, the Storyteller Minan Keepers of the Water Sneaking Up on a Fish Big Water Ice The Origins of the First Ice Fishing Shanty Inhaling the Night Birch Bark Biting Bebookwedagaminh Dreamcatchers In Pursuit of Shiigun, the Bass Chiibii Tag Siisagwad Charlie’s Bundle Manaboozhou and the Ducks The Devil’s Chair Fine Weather for Painting Niimik Niigik Why Are You Sleeping on a Nice Day Like This? Don’t Judge a Book By its Cover Fins Indian Mission Church That Wonderful Thing The Winona Dilemma Calm Days One End of the Boat Fried Eggs The Little People of the North Woods The Storeroom My Favorite Fish The Drum Superior’s Gifts The Log Biboon Fog Paints the Landscape The Trout Lake Manaboozhou’s Basket The Michikiniibigag Laundry Day Flowers and Kisses Flying Pigs Shampoo Soup Quiet Time When Stones Walk the Earth