Honoring Elders: Aging, Authority, and Ojibwe Religion

Using archival and ethnographic research, Michael D. McNally follows the making of Ojibwe eldership, showing that deference to older women and men is part of a fuller moral, aesthetic, and cosmological vision connected to the ongoing circle of life and tradition of authority that has been crucial to surviving colonization.

Author(s): Michael David McNally
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Pages: 408
Categories: Family & Relationships