Take a seat to listen in on my discussion with Professor Brady DeSanti about the windigo, Indigenous history, his own research and more. Needless to say, a huge thanks goes out to Professor DeSanti for making the time to chat with me, as well as guiding my general path through such an intricate subject.
IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE/DISCUSSION
Brady DeSanti
Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha
Director of the Native American Studies Program
Enrolled Citizen of the Lac Court Oreilles Ojibwe Tribal Nation
Carolyn Fiscus ‘Big Mama’
Member of the Winnebago tribe of Nebraska (the Ho-Chunk)
Indigenous Studies Professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha
Ho-Chunk Nation (a portion of the Winnebago tribe, located in Black River Falls, Wisconsin)
Lac Court Oreilles Ojibwe Tribe (tribe located in Hayward, Wisconsin)
Anishinaabe (what the Ojibwe, Odawa, & Potawatomie people call themselves, meaning ‘The People’ or ‘Human Being’)
Lakota (tribe located near the Sacred Black Hills of South Dakota & neighboring states)
The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska
Omaha (tribe located in Nebraska)
Winnebago (tribe located in Nebraska)
Other-Than-Human/Non-Human persons
Basil Johnson (Ojibwe author)
Ogimaa (an animal spiritual caretaker/representative)
Hamblecha (Lakota word for a vision quest)
Oyate (Lakota word meaning ‘nation’)
Irving Hallowell (anthropologist)
The Terror that Comes in the Night (1982 sleep paralysis study & book by David J Hufford)
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Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese ((auto)biography by Tiffany Midge)
Animikii (thunder beings)
Antlers (2021 film)
Wendigo (2001 film)
Island of the Anishnaabeg (a study of Ojibwe experience, written by Theresa Smith)
Columbus and Other Cannibals (a book by Jack Forbes)
Minobimaadiziwin (an Ojibwe word that means ‘to live a good life’)
Keepers of the Game (an examination on the effect of European contact with the Natives of Eastern Canada, by Calvin Luther Martin)
Understanding & Teaching Native American History (edited by Kristofer Ray & Brady DeSanti)
The Windigo Go South (article by Raymond Fogelson)
Alfred Louis Kroeber (anthropologist working with the Washoe California Tribe)
Dine (what the Navajo call themselves, meaning ‘The People’ or ‘Human Being’)
Hozho (Dine concept of interrelatedness & balance)
Hataalii (Navajo word meaning ‘singer)
Reservation Dogs (2021 drama TV series)
Rutherford Falls (2021 sitcom)
Hogan (a home)
Graham Greene (an Oneida actor)
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