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Lacrosse on the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi and Beltrami’s racket
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – he article discusses lacrosse in the Great Lakes region, characterized by the use of a single racket, distinct from the Iroquois variant. The oldest surviving racket, collected by G. C. Beltrami in 1823, is presently preserved at the Caffi Museum in Bergamo, Italy. The Beltrami racket holds considerable cultural significance, not…
The Flight of the Owl: the Wabeno, the Windigo, the Wendigokan, the Morning Star, and Mexican Echoes in Anishinabe Culture
Anishinabe culture, Beltrami, drums, Mexican cultures, Morning Star, Owl, Wabeno, Wendigokan, WindigoBy: SANDRA BUSATTA – This article starts from a cue provided by some Algonquian etymologies, starting from the Proto Algonquian term *wi-nteko-wa, through a series of cognates in the various Algonquian languages. These words develop four meanings: that of windigo, a cannibal spirit or a human who becomes a cannibal, that of owl, that of specter,…