Their Example Showed Me the Way / Kwayask Ê-Kî-Pê-Kiskinowâpahtihicik: A Cree Woman's Life Shaped by Two Cultures

ISBN-13: 9780888642912 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 320 str.

Emma Minde

Opis

Emma Minde's portraits of the family into which she was given in marriage are touching and instructive. They show us a young woman leaving her home in Saddle Lake, Alberta, to join a household of strangers in Hobbema. In addition to the husband she has yet to meet, Emma comes to know four strong-willed people who will shape her life: her husband's parents, Mary-Jane and Dan Minde, Dan's younger brother, Sam, and his wife, Mary. These reminiscences, told to Freda Ahenakew, offer rare insights into a life guided by two powerful forces: the traditional world of the Plains Cree and the Catholic missions and boarding-schools of the day, designed to re-make their charges entirely. Rarely has the interplay of these two worlds-often in conflict, yet oddly in harmony-been sketched so eloquently as in this moving autobiography. Emma Minde's stories are presented here as she told them in Cree, with a translation into English on the facing pages. With its Cree-English Glossary and an English Index to the Glossary, this award-winning book is not only a milestone of Aboriginal testimonial literature, but also an important Cree language resource. Ideal for course adoptions, Native Studies libraries and general readers alike.