Makkannaw, Rita

Rita Makkannaw immigrated to Canada with her family at age 9. After enduring a sexually charged incident with her father, she ran away from home at age 16. She entered into an abusive marriage, but managed to obtain an education, career and raise two children, in spite of her troubles. Then in 1986, at age 41, Rita began to have many spiritual experiences, discovering in her process a completely new world. A world filled with magic that she did not understand. She began to search for answers to what was happening to her. In that search, she met and fell in love with a Cree First Nations Medici...