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Keewaydinoquay Margaret Peschel
WINative:
--- Quote from: Sparks on February 17, 2024, 01:11:40 am ---She hes been mentioned once before in this foum:
--- Quote from: educatedindian on August 22, 2010, 01:49:18 pm ---Keywaydinoquay Pakawakuk Peschel was an Anishnaabe professor who did many studies on herbal medicine. It's kind of a strange claim, saying she was [Susun] Weed's adopted grandmother. She passed on 11 years ago, but seemingly Weed did not know that.
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Seems she spawned a group of Non-Indian followers who still follow her lead and claim Ojibwe and lecture on Indigenous culture.
Keewaydinoquay founded the Miniss Kitigan Drum, a non-profit organization supporting the preservation and evolution of Great Lakes Native American traditions
Diana:
Here's Margaret's marriage license with her parents names. And the 1920 Census. As you can see they are all white. Also all their neighbors are white.
Margaret Moorhouse Cook
in the Michigan, U.S., Marriage Records, 1867-1952
Name Margaret Moorhouse Cook
Gender Female
Race White
Age 34
Birth Date abt 1918
Birth Place Ludington, Michigan
Marriage License Place Wayne
Marriage Date 17 May 1952
Marriage Place Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA
Residence Place Detroit, Michigan
Father
Wesley J Cook
Mother
Sarah E Moorhouse
Spouse
Gerhardt C Peschel
Margarat Cook
in the 1920 United States Federal Census
Name Margarat Cook
[Margaret Cook]
Age 1
Birth Year abt 1919
Birthplace Michigan
Home in 1920 Scottville, Mason, Michigan
Street East State Street
Residence Date 1920
Race White
Gender Female
Relation to Head of House Daughter
Marital Status Single
Father's Name Wesley J Cook
Father's Birthplace Michigan
Mother's Name Sarah E Cook
Mother's Birthplace England
Name Wesley J Cook
Age 39
Birth Year abt 1881
Birthplace Michigan
Home in 1920 Scottville, Mason, Michigan
Street East State Street
Residence Date 1920
Race White
Gender Male
Relation to Head of House Head
Marital Status Married
Spouse's Name Sarah E Cook
Father's Birthplace Canada
Mother's Birthplace USA
Name Sarah E Cook
Age 40
Birth Year abt 1880
Birthplace England
Home in 1920 Scottville, Mason, Michigan
Street East State Street
Residence Date 1920
Race White
Gender Female
Immigration Year 1887
Relation to Head of House Wife
Marital Status Married
Spouse's Name Wesley J Cook
Father's Birthplace England
Mother's Birthplace England
Sparks:
--- Quote from: WINative on February 17, 2024, 04:42:18 am ---Seems she spawned a group of Non-Indian followers who still follow her lead and claim Ojibwe and lecture on Indigenous culture.
Keewaydinoquay founded the Miniss Kitigan Drum, a non-profit organization supporting the preservation and evolution of Great Lakes Native American traditions
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The quote is from her Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keewaydinoquay_Peschel
I will quote the whole paragraph:
--- Quote ---Keewaydinoquay founded the Miniss Kitigan Drum, a non-profit organization supporting the preservation and evolution of Great Lakes Native American traditions. Many referred to Keewaydinoquay lovingly as Nookomis (Grandmother). The group has ties with established and recognized tribes in the area. She was the subject of controversy, much of it stemming from her willingness to teach those of other than native backgrounds. She started doing this at a time when native people had just secured their abilities to openly practice traditional ceremonial rites and religious observances. Kee said it "broke her heart" that she could find no Native peoples interested in learning about their own culture, and she offered her teachings to non-natives as the only way of preserving her heritage. She said to critics that the time was late, and that people of good hearts and like minds needed to work together to offset the users and those that were actively hurting the earth. Some other elders at the time affirmed the wisdom of this, and later many who had earlier criticized her came to appreciate the wisdom of these teachings and proclaim them themselves.
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I couldn't find much about the non-profit Miniss Kitigan Drum, except that they are listed as having published a number of printed works, from 1977 and well into the 1990s: Publisher: Miniss Kitigan Drum, St. James, Michigan.
WINative:
Thanks Diane I wonder how she created this Ojibwe fantasy and who she was connected to that helped her?
According to her biography, Keewaydinoquay was born in a fishing boat en route to the hospital from the Manitou Islands, which capsized shortly thereafter, and her survival was interpreted as miraculous. Her childhood name, meaning "Walks with Bears", derived from an incident where as a toddler she was left on a blanket as her parents gathered blueberries, returning to see her standing by bears, eating blueberries off the bushes. Her adult name Giiwedinokwe, recorded as "Keewaydinoquay", means "Woman of the North[west Wind]" and came from her vision quest.
According to Kee, she apprenticed with the noted Anishinaabeg medicine woman Nodjimahkwe from the age of 9 and worked for many years as a medicine woman, at a time when her people had little access to conventional medical care and when conventional medical care failed to cure them, healing more than several patients deemed to be terminally ill.
Sparks:
--- Quote from: Sparks on February 18, 2024, 03:30:47 am ---I couldn't find much about the non-profit Miniss Kitigan Drum […]
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I found this. At this URL, an article can be downloaded:
https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/ALGQP/article/download/356/260/1122
--- Quote ---Keewaydinoquay: Anishinaabe-mashkikiikwe and Ethnobotanist
[By] WENDY GENIUSZ University of Minnesota
Papers of the 36th Algonquian Conference, ed. H.C. Wolfart
(Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 2005), pp. 187-206.
From the time she was in graduate school until the end of her life,
Kee worked to build the Miniss Kitigan Drum, an organization dedicated
to teaching and maintaining Anishinaabe knowledge. She describes the
role and purpose of the Miniss Kitigan Drum (cf. note 9):
The Miniss Kitigan Drum, Inc. is the extended family of the Miniss
Kitigan Band of the Amikogenda Islands in Lake Michigan. By now
we are a pretty mixed lot genetically, and the roles we live out in the
dominant society are a contributing network across the entire continent.
The one thing we have in common is our determination to walk
the Sun Trail according to the ancient ecologically-orientated philosophies
of the Anishinaabeg (Native Americans of the Great Lakes
Regions).
Kee described this organization as dedicated to maintaining physical and
spiritual balance by teaching the ancient philosophies of the Anishinaabeg
and by maintaining an encampment where members can continue to
"learn and renew." While teaching at the University of Wisconsin she
started a Milwaukee branch. Through monthly meetings, teaching workshops,
and a summer retreat center, this nonprofit organization teaches
Anishinaabe philosophy and knowledge about plants. Kee taught Anishinaabe
philosophy and knowledge about maintaining and using plants as
food, medicine, and for construction through the Miniss Kitigan Drum
(Geniusz; Simonsen). When I asked Warber if she, too, was involved with
the Miniss Kitigan Drum, she told me that one could not know Kee and
not be involved with this organization because of her dedication to it.
Through Miniss Kitigan Drum, Kee also produced "Mukwah Miskomin
or KinnicKinnick: 'Gift of Bear'" and several other works.
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