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Article Excerpt
Robert A. Brightman. Acadohkiwina and Acimowina: Traditional Narratives of the Rock Cree Indians. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2007. x + 185 pp. $29.95 paperback.
Anthropology professor and Rock Cree researcher Robert A. Bright-man presents his Rock Cree narrative findings from field research obtained in 1977-79 and 1985-86. Brightman studied the Rock Cree in the Manitoba communities of Brochet, Granville Lake, and Pukatawagan. The result is an in-depth analysis of the social, linguistic, and oral literature of various narratives that touch on a variety of topics, including Catholicism, plants, animals, humorous events, and spirits.
Rock Cree oral narratives are classified in two large groups: as either acadohkiwin or acimowin. Essentially, acadohkiwin narratives transmit "true accounts of events that transpired in an earlier condition...
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