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OverviewStrong 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 and murder committed in a jealous rage to the abduction of a young woman by underground spirits who on her release grant her healing powers. A highly personal document, these memoirs are altogether exceptional in recounting the thoughts and feelings of a Cree woman as she copes with the challenges of reserve life but also, in a key chapter, with her loneliness while tending a relative’s children in a place far away from home – and, apparently just as debilitating, away from the company of other women. Her experiences and reactions throw fresh light on the lives lived by Plains Cree women on the Canadian prairies over much of the twentieth century. The late Sarah Whitecalf (1919-1991) spoke Cree exclusively, spending most of her life at Nakiwacîhk / Sweetgrass Reserve on the North Saskatchewan River. This is where Leonard Bloomfield was told his Sacred Stories of the Sweet Grass Cree in 1925 and where a decade later David Mandelbaum apprenticed himself to Kâ-miyokîsihkwêw / Fineday, the step-grandfather in whose family Sarah Whitecalf grew up. In presenting a Cree woman’s view of her world, the texts in this volume directly reflect the spoken word: Sarah Whitecalf’s memoirs are here printed in Cree exactly as she recorded them, with a close English translation on the facing page. They constitute an autobiography of great personal authority and rare authenticity. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sarah Whitecalf , H.C. Wolfart , Freda Ahenakew , Ted WhitecalfPublisher: University of Manitoba Press Imprint: University of Manitoba Press Weight: 0.333kg ISBN: 9780887559488ISBN 10: 0887559484 Pages: 366 Publication Date: 02 April 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPART 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 chargePART 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)ReviewsThis book should be of immediate interest to scholars of Cree language and linguistics, to historians, and to Indigenous scholars. Other non-specialists, especially settlers seeking ways to respond to the TRC's calls to action, can also read these stories to learn the truths of 20th-century Cree life after colonization but also as a window into the traditional Cree language, culture, and ways. --Nicole Rosen Prairie History Author InformationSarah Whitecalf (1919-1991) spoke Cree exclusively, spending most of her life at Nakiwacîhk/ Sweetgrass Reserve on the North Saskatchwan River. Her lectures are collected in The Cree Language is Our Identity. H.C. Wolfart is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Manitoba. Freda Ahenakew (1932-2011), founding Director of the Saskatchewan Indian Languages Institute, earned her MA in Cree linguistics at the University of Manitoba. In 1997 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Saskatchewan. She was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1998. Ted Whitecalf is Sarah Whitecalf’s son and a professional photographer. His Sweet Grass Records/Productions in Saskatoon has been publishing recordings of Indigenous music and photographic books for over twenty-five years. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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