Sometimes things come to people out of the blue and seemingly for a reason. The Anishinaabe word for this is "nigika." The stories contained in this collection reached Howard Webkamigad nearly eighty years after they were recorded, after first being kept in their original copper wire format by the American Philosophical Society and later being converted onto cassettes and held by Dr. James McClurken of Michigan State University. These rich tales, recorded by Anishinaabe people in the Harbor Springs area of Michigan, draw on the legends, fables, trickster stories, parables, and humor of...
Sometimes things come to people out of the blue and seemingly for a reason. The Anishinaabe word for this is "nigika." The stories contained in this c...
