La Ronge Journal, 1823

by George Nelson

Table of Contents

Part 1

• [Introductory Remarks] [1]
• [Conjuring: The Interpreter's Account]
• [Initiations and Conjuring][4]
  • [In Quest of Dreams]
  • [Dialogue with a Spirit] [5]
  • [Principal Spirits]
    • [Wee-suck-ā-jāāk / Gey-Shay-mani-to][6]
    • [Key-jick-oh-kay (Old Nick)]
    • [Water Lynx]
    • [Sun]
      • [A Dream Meeting with Sun][7]
    • [Thunder][8]
  • [Roots and Herbs (Medicines)]
• [The Manner of Conjuring]
  • [Building the Lodge]
  • [Preparing the Conjurer]
  • [Spirits who Enter the Lodge and Interactions with Them]
    • [Meeh-key-nock (Turtle)][9]
    • [Thunder]
    • [Flying Squirrel]
    • [Wolverine]
    • [Loon]
    • [Hercules / Strong Neck: Altercation with a Young Man]
    • [O-may-me-thay-day-ce-cee-wuck (Ancients or Hairy Breasts)]
    • [Sun][10]
    • [Pike]
    • [Buffaloe]
    • [Omniscience of Spirits]
    • [Showing the Turtle Spirit][11]
    • [Bear]
    • [Keyjickahkaiw]
    • [Wee-suck-ā-jāāk]
  • [Practices of Powerful Conjurers]
• [Mythology]
  • [North Wind and his Daughter (Birth of Wee-suck-ā-jāāk & Mishabôse)][13]
  • [Death of Mishabôse]
  • [Wee-suck-ā-jāāk and Kingfisher]
  • [Myths of the Flood]
    • [Wee-suck-ā-jāāk's Revenge on the Sea Lynxes]
    • [Wee-suck-ā-jāāk Tricks a Water Lynx and Beaver]
    • [Recreation of the Land][14]
    • [Wolf Surveys the Land][15]
  • [Creation of Humans]
  • [Separation of Land into Plains and Woods]
  • [Wee-suck-ā-jāāk Travels the Earth, Has a Son, Becomes a Woman][16]
• [Language Use]
• [Conversations][17]
  • [The Figure in the Dream is Sickness]
  • [Sickness Gives Warnings of Diseases]
  • [Reappearances of Spirits in Dreams to Teach the Votary][18]
  • [Malevolent Spirits (Need for Regular Sacrifices)]
  • [Accounts of Pahkack]
    • [Attacks at Home and While Hunting]
    • [Making Offerings at a Hunting Camp][19]
    • [Description of Pahkack]
    • [The Feast to Pahkack][20]
• [Roots and Medicines][21]
  • [The Abode of the Medicine Spirit]
  • [Teaching the Medicines to the Votary]
  • [Stones and Their Virtues][23]
• [Songs and Notes]
• [Treatment of the Sick][24]
• [Ceremonies and Songs Related to Starvation][25]
• [Fugitive Pieces]
  • [The Soul][27]
    • [An Attempt to Capture a Soul]
    • [Representation of the Soul][28]
    • [Imprisonment of a Soul]
  • [Medicines Used to Harm Others][29]
    • [Used Against a Woman]
    • [Wild Carroway][31]
      • [Used in Hunting]
      • [As Love Potions (Baptiste's Stories)][32]
  • [Effecting and Avoiding Spells][33]
    • [Dealing with Spells on Firearms]
      • [The Old Canadian's Account][34]
      • [The Iroquois' Account]
      • [The Half Breed's Account][35]
• [Stories of the Hairy Breasts and Nayhanimis]
  • [North Wind's Challenge][36]
  • [Nayhanimis Wars with the Hairy Breasts][37]
• [Notes][40]
  • [Motives for Writing the Journal]
  • [Comments on Aboriginal Beliefs][41]
  • [Mee-tay-wee]
  • [Conjuring]
  • [Evidence of Spirits through Conjuring Practice]
• [Conjuring Ceremony for a N. W. Co. Gentleman]
• [Stories][43]
  • [The Hunter and the Wolf Spirit]
  • [Pursuit by a Pahkack]
• [Wetiko][44]
  • [Trapping a Wetiko]
  • [Habits and Types of Wetiko][45]
  • [Those Driven to Cannibalism by Starvation]
  • [Story of a Wetiko Woman][46]
  • [Those who Dream of Ice and the North][47]
  • [Dream Feasts Of Human Flesh]
  • [Behavior of Infected People][48]
  • [An Account of Survival]
  • [Executing a Wetiko]
  • [Treatments and Recovery][49]
• [Malignant Spirits][50]
  • [North, Ice, Skeleton and the Crazy Woman]
• [Confession][51]
• [Animal Sacrifice (Beaver Indians)][53]
• [Fragments][54]
  • [The Great Doctor]
  • [The Devil and the Tailor Caricature]
• [Feasts]
• [Conjuring Ceremony (June 4th., 1823)][56]

Part 2

• [Typescript of Manuscript]

Part 3

• [Manuscript Page Images]

[ References]

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