Letters Just can’t get enough
I recently attended the Reel Paddling Film Festival in Min- neapolis. I am wondering if the canoeing film,Te Summer of ’99 by Steve Moss is available for purchase on DVD or any other format.
PATRICK MCKELLIPS Lakeland, MN
Tanks for checking out the Reel Paddling Film Festival. As the producers of the festival we collect the best films of the year and tour them around to local screenings like the one you saw in Minneapolis, hosted by Midwest Mountaineering. We have the rights to screen these films, but not to retail them to the audi- ences. However, many of these films are commercially available through your local paddling shops. For others likeTe Summer of ’99, which was named best canoe film, we encourage you to contact the director or producer directly. Tanks for your inter- est. Te more we support these filmmakers the more likely they are to keep making great paddling films. —S.M.
Miigwech to you too
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Boozhoo (that’s Ojibwa for hello). In your Summer 2007 edi- torial you state, “Some said [Dane the forester] was Wen- digo, the semi-human cannibalistic beast from native leg- end.” Although this is somewhat correct you inadvertently demean aboriginal mythology with this statement. Te Anishinabeg believed that doing good was vital to
their existence. In order to achieve better community be- haviour the Anishinabeg told stories that were deliberately horrible and unnerving. Te role of these stories in the An- ishinabeg world was to teach the proper roles for people to follow. To European scholars, the Wendigo story is the story of a cannibal monster of the “living dead” and the most feared creature known to the Anishinabeg. However, the original meaning of the word refers to a person self-en- grossed to excessive extremes. Its premise is to teach that whenever one person takes excessively from Mother Earth they destroy themselves and eventually everyone else. A fitting ideology for today. Baama and miigwech (see you later and thank you).
ARTHUR SETKA Peterborough, ON
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You have to hand it to the Anishinabeg. A Wendigo story would be a more effectively unnerving moral lesson than old European standbys like Goldilocks and the Tree Bears. In light of the fur- ther information, I suppose Dane wasn’t Wendigo after all. He wasn’t self-engrossed or destructive—though he did come close to destroying the spirits of a few Algonquin Park treeplanters with his attentive quality control.—Ed.
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