Wendigo Presentation
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Video Presentation on the Wendigo creature. The first part of the video describes the appearances of the creature and what it is. The second part discusses the meaning of the Wendigo in Native American society.
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Hello, I'll be doing my presentation on the
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Wingo.
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The Wingo is, um, a native American creature.
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It is
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specifically derived from the
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Alon speaking people. So, um, like the Chippewa
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tribe, that's one that it comes from.
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So the Win Togo is usually described as a cannibalistic creature that, um,
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hunts after human flesh feeds on people.
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Um,
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specifically, it targets those who are weak, uh,
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in their physical health and spiritually or mentally.
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Um, it specifically goes after people who are isolated from their community,
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um, being isolated from your community and not being well. Um,
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involved in your community
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is kind of taboo in native American culture.
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Um So what does the
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Wingo look like?
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So
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the win to go according to the Canadian encyclopedia has a couple of different, um,
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appearances.
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So the Wingo can be an emaciated creature
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that has flesh hanging off of its bones or it can be a large creature
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that is fully fleshed out and grows bigger.
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Um, the more flesh it consumes some variations of it, uh,
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have animal teeth like sharp fangs or deer antlers,
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et cetera.
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Um So here is a picture of the Wingo
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drawn by Norval
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Miso in 1963.
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So uh let's examine what a Wingo means in Native American culture.
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So, in Native American culture community is very, very important
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um and being involved in community and serving your
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role in a community is a top priority.
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So, uh
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specifically, we're talking about the Chippewa,
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the Ottawa, the Algonquins
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and the uh Pata
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Ami people.
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Um They
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um these legends are used to describe
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kind of to warn people to not become distant from their community.
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Um So
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along with this,
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the win to go preys on people who are weak
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in uh their mental health or their physical health.
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So if a person is very sick and is currently being isolated from their community,
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one could be possessed by a win to go spirit.
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Um
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usually uh to treat
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um
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the becoming a win to go, a person would be isolated from their uh the ma
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the majority of their tribe to
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make sure that they wouldn't eat anybody.
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Um And then they would be fed fats and oils and to
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like kind of ward off the spirit who's trying to consume flesh.
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You wouldn't be eating meat, you would be eating oils and fatty foods.
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Um
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In later times, in western medicine,
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there was um a thing called Wingo
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psychosis that was used to describe people who had cannibalistic urges.
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Um Denver Michaels wrote an article about this and
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describe the different treatments that were used uh in Native American cultures.
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Usually
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they would be put to death
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because they couldn't,
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they would go through the process of feeding
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them fats and isolating them from people.
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But the cannibalistic urges would still be there.
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Some of the people um would willingly
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be killed.
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So here are the sources that I used for my research and in my presentation.
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Thank you so much for listening
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and bye bye.