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Title: |
Their Example Showed Me the Way / kwayask ê-kî-pê-kiskinowâpahtihicik |
| Sub-title: |
A Cree Woman's Life Shaped by Two Cultures |
Search Result:
| By (author): |
Emma Minde Translated by: Freda Ahenakew, H. C. Wolfart |
| ISBN10-13: |
0888642911 : 9780888642912 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Weight: |
.469 Kg. |
| Published: |
University of Alberta Press - December 1997 |
| List Price: |
21.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Autobiography: general : Language teaching & learning material & coursework : American English : Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church : Indigenous peoples : American English : American indigenous languages : Algonkian (Algonquin) languages |
| Emma Mindeâ 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 at Saddle Lake, Alberta, to join a household of strangers in Hobbemaâ with not only a husband she has yet to meet, but also four strong-willed adults who will shape her life: her husbandâ s parents, Mary-Jane and Dan Minde, and Dan Mindeâ s younger brother Sam and his wife Mary. Emma Mindeâ s autobiography focusses on her relationship with these two women, Mary-Jane Minde and Mary Minde. The education that the newly arrived wife received in their households was built on obedience, hard work and a firmly held set of beliefs, seen as essential preparation for a life of uncertainty and rapid change, hardship and constant struggle. These reminiscences, told to Freda Ahenakew, offer rare insights into a life history guided by two powerful forces: the traditional world of the Plains Cree and the Catholic missions with their boarding-schools, designed to re-make their charges entirely. Rarely has the interplay of these two worldsâ often in conflict, but often also, it seems, very much in harmony with one anotherâ been sketched so eloquently as in Emma Mindeâ s autobiography. Emma Mindeâ s stories are presented as she told them in Cree, with a translation into English on facing pages. With its Cree-English Glossary and an English Index to the Glossary, this work is an important Cree language resource. |
| Awards / Prizes: |
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Alberta Book Awards - Alberta Scholarly Title of the Year
1998
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"...recognize(s) the vitality of interest in the roots of Alberta's literary tradition and search for new forms of expression." R. Gordon Moyles, CBRA
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"Emma Minde's reminiscences offer valuable insights into the social history of one of Alberta's largest and most significant reserve communities. Hers is the kind of story that is easily left out of the historical record, but when preserved, illuminates history as a lived experience." Michael Payne, CBRA
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