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Legends of my people, the great Ojibway by Norval Morrisseau, Selwyn Dewdney (editor), Norval Morriseau is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The relationship between Norval Morrisseau and anthropologist,Selwyn Dewdney was an important one for both. They met in 1960 when Dewdney traveled by canoe through the Red Lake district searching for petroglyphs along the waterways. Morrisseau signed on as a paddler and guide. Together they explored the petroglyphs of the Great Lakes, which proved to be influential in his paintings, helping Morrisseau to formalize the stylized visual vocabulary with which he created his iconic paintings. The journey was fruitful for both and culminated in their collaboration in 1965 on a book of Ojibway stories that Morrisseau wrote and illustrated with his fluid drawings and Dewdney edited, called Legends of My People, the Great Ojibway. At all times in Morrisseaus art, the artist is conscious of including the narrative of his own life and context, searching for a way to make intelligent use of his ancestral culture and his own life in a rapidly modernizing Canadian landscape. For Morrisseau, Dewdney was a friend and colleague who provided him with an artistic vocabulary, a means of expressing his Ojibwa heritage from his perspective as a 20th century Ojibwa negotiating the barrier between the whi

Who reads Legends of my people, the great Ojibway?

Author

Norval Morrisseau, Selwyn Dewdney (editor), Norval Morriseau

Publisher

McGraw-Hill Ryerson

Published

1977

Language

EN

ISBN

9780770001100

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Folklore, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24