Telling New Myths

Contemporary Native American Animal Narratives from Michigan

Bibliographic Data

ID2767575
AuthorsMary Magoulick, Mary J Magoulick (corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume130
Issue515
Pages34-71
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of American Folklore (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/jamerfolk.130.515.0034
OpenAlexW2587078765
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited14

Telling new myths ("teachings"), Ojibwe people in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan engage in creative processes of cultural renewal, like many Native Americans today. These narratives fit the genre of myth from a folkloristic perspective, but are newly shaped to speak to contemporary experiences of a resurgent, emergent culture. These new myths involve animals (such as wolves, coyotes, and buffalo) as main characters and demonstrate a mythic structure of movement from chaos (the period of post-European/American dominance and destruction of traditional cultures) toward cosmos (the "good road" of a Native-centered worldview

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Biology · Dominance (genetics) · Ethnology · Literature · Mythology · Narrative · Native american · Peninsula · Perspective (graphical) · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Classics · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology

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