Windigo Themes
Man and the Natural World
In Western culture today, we often have a tendency to romanticize the Native American way of life. From Academy Award-winning film Dances With Wolves to history book half-truths like Than...
Tradition and Customs
Stories are a central aspect of Native American culture. They form an intricate web of meaning that transcends the boundaries space and time, connecting people and experiences past, present and fut...
The Supernatural
Okay—it's time to address the demonic flesh-consuming elephant in the room. (Man, that'd be really creepy.) In Chippewa lore, it is believed that humans who eat the flesh of other humans are in d...
Madness
While the Windigo appears most commonly in Chippewa stories as a supernatural figure (see our "Themes: The Supernatural" section), these legends remain grounded in real concerns. In the early 1900s...