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Strong women dominate these reminiscences: the grandmother taught the girl whose mother refused to let her go to school, and the life-changing events they witnessed range from the ravages of the influenza epidemic of 1918-20, to murder committed in a jealous rage, to the abduction of a young woman by underground spirits.

Table of Contents
  • PART I Becoming a Cree woman
  • Chapter 1 êkosi nikî-pê-ay-itâcihonân / This has been our way of life
  • Chapter 2 êkosi nikî-tâs-ôy-ohpikihikawin / This is the way I was raised
  • Chapter 3 mêh-mêskoc nikî-pimohtahikawin / I was taken back and forth
  • Chapter 4 miton ê-kî-pê-na-nêhiyaw-ôhpikihikawiyân / I was truly raised as a Cree woman
  • PART II Being a Cree woman
  • Chapter 5 êwak ôm ê-kî-ay-itâcimisot awa nikâwiy / This is my mother's own story
  • Chapter 6 iyikohk ê-kî-sôhkêpayik anima nipahtâkêwin / So horrible was that murder
  • Chapter 7 ê-nipahi-kâh-kaskêyihtamân / I was desperately lonesome
  • Chapter 8 pikw êkwa niya / Now I had to take charge
  • PART III The spiritual life
  • Chapter 9 ê-sîkâwîhcikêhk / Observing the mourning ritual
  • Chapter 10 manitow kâ-matwêhikêt / Where the spirits drum (I)
  • Chapter 11 manitow kâ-matwêhikêt / Where the spirits drum (II)
  • Chapter 12 manitow kâ-matwêhikêt / Where the spirits drum (III)

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        Publisher: MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press
        Publication Date: 4/30/2021 12:00:00 AM
        ISBN13: 9780887559426, 978-0887559426
        ISBN10: 0887559425
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        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Strong women dominate these reminiscences: the grandmother taught the girl whose mother refused to let her go to school, and the life-changing events they witnessed range from the ravages of the influenza epidemic of 1918-20, to murder committed in a jealous rage, to the abduction of a young woman by underground spirits.

        Table of Contents
        • PART I Becoming a Cree woman
        • Chapter 1 êkosi nikî-pê-ay-itâcihonân / This has been our way of life
        • Chapter 2 êkosi nikî-tâs-ôy-ohpikihikawin / This is the way I was raised
        • Chapter 3 mêh-mêskoc nikî-pimohtahikawin / I was taken back and forth
        • Chapter 4 miton ê-kî-pê-na-nêhiyaw-ôhpikihikawiyân / I was truly raised as a Cree woman
        • PART II Being a Cree woman
        • Chapter 5 êwak ôm ê-kî-ay-itâcimisot awa nikâwiy / This is my mother's own story
        • Chapter 6 iyikohk ê-kî-sôhkêpayik anima nipahtâkêwin / So horrible was that murder
        • Chapter 7 ê-nipahi-kâh-kaskêyihtamân / I was desperately lonesome
        • Chapter 8 pikw êkwa niya / Now I had to take charge
        • PART III The spiritual life
        • Chapter 9 ê-sîkâwîhcikêhk / Observing the mourning ritual
        • Chapter 10 manitow kâ-matwêhikêt / Where the spirits drum (I)
        • Chapter 11 manitow kâ-matwêhikêt / Where the spirits drum (II)
        • Chapter 12 manitow kâ-matwêhikêt / Where the spirits drum (III)

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