- March 8, 2017
Brian McInnes presents as part of “Native Studies: New Intellectual Traditions & Landscapes“—Department of Native Studies 2016-2017 Colloquium Series.
When: Wednesday, March 8, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Where: Tier 307, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.
Cost: FREE
Francis Pegahmagabow (1889–1952) was an Anishinaabe born in Shawanaga, Ontario. Enlisting at the onset of the First World War, he became the most decorated Canadian Indigenous soldier for bravery and the most accomplished sniper in North American military history. After the war, Pegahmagabow settled in Wasauksing, Ontario. He served his community as both chief and councillor and belonged to the Brotherhood of Canadian Indians, an early national Indigenous political organization. Francis also recorded many stories describing many parts of his life in a classic Ojibwe narrative. They reveal aspects of Francis’s Anishinaabe life and worldview. Join scholar and Indigenous language advocate Brian McInnes as he provides valuable cultural, spiritual, linguistic, and historic insights on Francis’s words and world. Presented in their original Ojibwe as well as in English translation, the stories also reveal a rich and evocative relationship to the lands and waters of Georgian Bay.
Also come and buy a copy of the book:” https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/sounding-thunder”: https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/sounding-thunder.
Brian D. McInnes is a faculty member in the Department of Education at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He is an advocate for and speaker of Anishinaabemowin, the Anishinaabe language. A member of the Wasauksing First Nation, Brian is a great-grandson of Francis Pegahmagabow. Sounding Thunder is his first book.
