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Article: Inkonze: the stones of traditional knowledge.
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- Wind Speaker
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
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Inkonze: The Stones of Traditional Knowledge By Phillip R. Coutu and Lorraine Hoffman-Mercredi Thunderwoman Ethnographics 290 pp., $24.99
The collaborative efforts of Metis, Phillip Coutu, and a Chipewyan Native writer, Lorraine Hoffman-Mercredi, has resulted in the publication of Inkonze: The Stones of Traditional Knowledge, stories about the Dene and the north.
If the word "Inkonze" was in the dictionary it would roughly translate to mean medicine power, spiritual helpers, or the source of supernatural abilities. Most sources explain it as, "to know something a little," and say that it relies on "one's abilities to have relevant dreams."
The ...