Basil H. Johnston

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Basil H. Johnston was born on the Parry Island Indian Reserve in Ontario, Canada, on July 13, 1929, to Mary (Lafreniere) and Rufus Johnston. He is a member of the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation (formerly known as the Cape Croker Band of Ojibwa).

He graduated from Loyola College, Montreal, Quebec, cum laude in 1954. In 1969, he joined the ethnology department of Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, until his retirement. From 1970 onward, as an ethnologist, non-fiction writer, essayist, short-story writer, autobiographer, and educator, Johnston became a prolific writer. His topics are predominantly concerned with the preservation of his native Ojibwa culture. He relates the legends and stories of his tribe with humor and dignity.

1 Bibliography
2 Filmography
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Bibliography

North American Indians: outline. Indian-Eskimo Association of Canada (Toronto: 1971).
Ojibway heritage. Columbia University Press (New York: 1976).
Canada: Discovering Our Heritage. Pearson Custom Publishing (Boston: 1977). By David Smith, Chris Andreae, Basil Johnston, E. Mitchner and Ann MacKenzie.
How the birds got their colours: Gah w'indinimowaut binaesheehnyuk w'idinauziwin-wauh. Kids Can Press (Toronto: 1978).
Moose meat and wild rice. McClelland and Stewart (Toronto: 1978).
Ojibway Language Course Outline for beginners. Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto: 1978).
Ojibway Language Lexicon for beginners. Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto: 1978).
Tales the elders told: Ojibway legends. Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto: 1981).
Brève histoire du Collège Saint-Alexandre. Collège Saint-Alexandre (Touraine: 1981).
Grosser Weisser Falke : der Lebenskreis eines Ojibwa. Eugen Diederichs Verlag (Köln: 1982).
Und Manitu erschuf die Welt : Mythen und Visionen der Ojibwa. Diederichs (München: 1984).
Nanabusch und Grosser Geist : Geschichten der Odschibwä Indianer (Kanada). Verlag St. Gabriel (Mödling-Wien: 1985). By Basil Johnston; Shirley Cheechoo; Käthe Recheis.
By Canoe & Moccasin: Some Native Place Names of the Great Lakes. Waapoone Publishing and Promotion (Lakefield: 1986). Illustrated by David Beyer.
Ojibway ceremonies. McClelland and Stewart (Toronto: 1987).
Indian school days. Key Porter Books (Toronto: 1988).
"One Generation from Extinction" in Native Writers and Canadian Liturature. University of British Columbia Press (Vancouver: 1990).
Hudson Bay Watershed: a photographic memoir of the Ojibway, Cree, and Oji-Cree. Dundurn Press (Toronto: 1991). By John MacFie and Basil H. Johnston.
Hudson Bay portraits: native peoples of the Hudson Bay watershed. Dundurn Press (Toronto: 1992). By John Macfie and Basil Johnston.
Tales of the Anishinaubaek. Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto: 1993). By Basil H. Johnston and Maxine Noel.
The Manitous: the spiritual world of the Ojibway. HarperCollins Publishers (New York: 1995).
The bear-walker and other stories. Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto: 1995).
Readings: selections from HarperCollins Spring/Summer 1995 nonfiction list. HarperCollins Publishers (New York: 1995). By Annie Dillard; Basil Johnston; Ellis Cose; Philip Langdon; Emma Donoghue; Lawrence Graham; Paul Solotaroff; Eleanor Anne Lanahan; HarperCollins (Firm)
American film stories. P. Reclam (Stuttgart: 1996). By Reingard M Nischik; Sam Shepard; Basil Johnston; Tom Clark; Richard Brautigan; Jayne Anne Phillips; T Coraghessan Boyle; Ray Bradbury; William Saroyan; Charles Johnson
The star man and other tales. Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto: 1997). By Basil H. Johnston and Ken Syrette.
Mermaids and Medicine Women. Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto: 1998).
The Art of Norval Morrisseau, The Writings of Basil H. Johnston. The Glenbow Museum (Calgary: 1999).
Crazy Dave. Key Porter Books (Toronto: 1999).
The nature of plants: excerpted from Ojibway heritage by Basil Johnston. Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission (Odanah, WI: 199X).
Honour Earth Mother: Mino-audjaudauh Mizzu-Kummik-Quae. University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln: 2003).
Anishinaubae Thesaurus. Michigan State University Press (East Lansing: 2007).

[edit] Filmography

The Man, the Snake and the Fox. National Film Board of Canada (Montreal: 1978). Directed and produced by Tony Snowsill, written by Basil Johnston.
Native Indian folklore. National Film Board of Canada (Montreal: 1993). By Alanis Obomsawin; Wolf Koenig; Brian McLeod; Tony Westman; Tony Snowsill; Basil Johnston; Les Krizson; Francois Hartman; Eunice Macaulay; Tex Kong; National Film Board of Canada.