Manitowapow - Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water

Beginning with traditional writing systems, Manitowapow shares diverse Indigenous perspectives and histories, from the late 1700s through to the present day in what is now Manitoba. Discover works by historically significant figures, well-known writers, contemporary leaders, storytellers and Knowledge Keepers, and vibrant new voices.

List of contents

Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Traditional Systems of Writing in Manitowapow
Peguis
Anishinaabe 1774-1864

• A Reply to the Selkirk Settlers' Call for Help
• An Open Letter to the Queen's Representatives

Pierre Falcon
Métis 1793-1876

• Li Lord Selkirk au Fort William
• The Dance of the Bois Brûlés

Cuthbert James Grant and the Sioux ChiefsMétis 1793-1854/unknown

• Letter from the Sioux Chiefs to the Métis
• Letter from Cuthbert Grant to the Sioux Chiefs
• Letter from the Sioux Chiefs to the Métis

Peter Jacobs (Pahtahsega)
Anishinaabe/ Mississauga 1807-1890

• From The Journal of the Reverend Peter Jacobs

Henry Budd (Sakachuwescam)
Cree 1812-1875

• From The Diary of Henry Budd, 1870-1875

Louis Riel
Métis 1844-1885

• Declaration of the People of Rupert's Land and the North West
• From "The Métis of the North West"
• La Métisse
• Song of the Métis Maiden
• Palpite, Ô Mon Esprit
• Shudder, My Spirit

Gabriel Dumont
Métis 1837-1906

• Episodes of My Life
• My Wound at the Battle of Duck Lake
• My Story

Harriette Goldsmith Sinclair Cowan
Métis/Cree 1832-1926

• On My Father
• The "Evil One"
• The 1850 Manitoba Flood
• On Being Captured by Riel

Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa)
Santee Sioux 1858-1939

• The Maidens' Feast

Kuskapatchees
Swampy Cree 18??-19??

• Kuskapatchees: The Smoky One
• How the Flood Came
• How the World Was Made Again
• Why the Moose's Skin Is Loose
• Why the Loon Has a Flat Back

William Berens (Tabasigizikweas)
Anishinaabe 1866-1947

• The Boy in the Red Tuque
• The Priests and the Furnace
• The Birth of the Winds, Flint, and the Great Hare

Maurice Sanderson
Cree 1877-?

• Mill Stones at Fairford
• Reminiscences of St. Paul's Industrial School
• Recollections of an Indian Missionary

Alex Grisdale
Anishinaabe 1896-?

• Death Island
• Niskesis and the Little People
• The Torch Woman

The Dene Elders Project
Dene
Marisis Aze

• Early Life
• Dreamers
• The Story of Thanadelthur

Bart Dzeylion

• Using Bones

Helen Joseyounen

• Childbirth
• More Than One Wife

Gabriel Tsannie

• Stories of Crowhead

George Barker
Saulteaux 1896-c. 1980

• My Early Years
• Medicine Dance

James Redsky (Esquekesik)
Anishinaabe 1899-?

• Eagle Feather
• The Creation of Man

Albert Edward Thompson
Cree/Saulteaux 1900-1973

• From Chief Peguis and His Descendants

Thomas Boulanger
Cree 1901-?

• From An Indian Remembers: My Life as a Trapper in Northern Manitoba

Norway House Elders
Cree
Irene Muswagon

• Red Willow Crystals
• Muskeg Leaves
• Ginger Roots or Wíhkés

Tommy York

• Treaty Days
• Rations
• York Boats: The Tail End of an Era
• The First Airplane I Ever Saw

Ruby Beardy

• Residential School Burns, May 29, 1945

Betsy Muminawatum

• The Winter Setting at Máhtawak
• The Travelling Stores of the Fur Buyers
• Off to the Spring Camp
• Homemade Jeans and Woolen Socks

David Courchene Sr.
Anishinaabe 1926-1992

• Message of the Grand Chief
• Problems and Possible Solutions

Alice Masak French
Ninatakmuit Inuit 1930-

• Grandmother Susie

Louis Bird (Pennishish)
Omushkego Cree 1934-

• John Sakaney
• Bernard Gull
• Our Grandmothers' Powers

Elders of Moose Lake
Cree

• The Story of East Arm Narrows
• The Medicine Man, Two Claws
• The Story of Norris Lake
• The Origin of the Wetigo

Tobasonakwut Kinew
Anishinaabe 1936-

• "Let Them Burn The Sky": Overcoming Repression of the Sacred Use of Anishinaabe Lands

Elders of Grand Rapids
Cree

• We Had a Good Life
• No Fish Can Go Up There
• We Helped Each Other

Bernelda Wheeler
Cree/Assiniboine/Saulteaux 1937-2005

• I Can't Have Bannock but the Beaver Has a Dam
• Our Beloved Land and You

The Prairie Call

• Welcome to The Prairie Call
• Unity
• The Rain-Dance and the Car Lot
• The Importance of Defending Our Culture
• Outlook in City-Bleak
• The Damaged Goods

Citizens of Camperville
Métis

• Statement by the Citizens of Camperville

George Morrissette
Métis 1938-

• Michif Toune Buffalo
• Le Pique-nique des Purs

Doris Young
Cree 1940-

• Northern Manitoba Hydro Electric Projects and Their Impact on Cree Culture

Theodore Fontaine
Anishinaabe 1941-

• Killing the Indian in the Child

Marie Annharte (nee Baker)
Anishinaabe 1942-

• Hudson Bay Bill
• One Way to Keep Track of Who Is Talking
• Penumbra
• Pretty Tough Skin Woman
• Raced Out to Write This Up

Jackson Beardy
Anishinaabe/Cree 1944-1984

• The Revenge
• The Story of the Giant Skunk
• The Bachelor

Phil Fontaine
Anishinaabe 1944-

• Statement to the Pope

Joe McLellan and Matrine Therriault
Métis 1945 and Anishinaabe/Cree 1946

• Nanabosho and the Cranberries

Ovide Mercredi
Cree 1946-

• A Different Politics

Elijah Harper
Cree 1949-

• What Canada Means to Me

Charles Nelson (Mizhakwanigiizhik)
Anishinaabe 1949-

• "Protection" Conflicting with Anishinabe Rights

Emma LaRocque
Plains Cree Métis 1949-

• Geese Over the City
• Long Way From Home
• My Hometown Northern Canada South Africa

Beatrice Mosionier
Métis 1949-

• From In the Shadow of Evil
• From Come Walk With Me, A Memoir

Patricia Ningewance
Anishinaabe 1951-

• Aabiding E-niibing Gichi-mookomaanakiing
• Once on a Summer in the United States

Murray Sinclair
Anishinaabe 1951-

• Suicide in First Nations People

Inmates at Stony Mountain Institution
Anonymous

• Unemployment & Indians
• When the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry Came to Stony Mountain
• The Great Snake and the Boy

Tomson Highway
Cree 1951-

• From Kiss of the Fur Queen
• From The Rez Sisters
• From Iskooniguni Iskweewuk: The Rez Sisters in Cree

Duncan Mercredi
Cree/Métis 1951-

• Betty
• Blues Singer
• born again indian
• yesterday's song
• Wachea

Lorraine Mayer
Métis 1953-

• Scrip
• À la façon du pays

Marvin Francis
Cree 1955-2005

• mcPemmicanTM
• Pulling Faces
• Soup for the Hood
• Air Miles Poem
• Duncan Donut Cig Poem

Ila Bussidor
Dene 1955-

• From Night Spirits: The Story of the Relocation of the Sayisi Dene

Douglas Nepinak
Saulteaux 1960-2005

• Main Street
• Bone Memory
• indians

Darrell Racine
Métis 1960-

• From Stretching Hide (with Dale Lakevold)

Joanne Arnott
Métis 1960-

• Manitoba Pastoral
• Migration

Brenda Isabel Wastasecoot
Cree 1963-

• Down the Flats

Jordan Wheeler
Cree/Anishinaabe/Assiniboine 1964-

• Sap

Cheryl Smoke
Dakota Sioux 1964-

• The Hills

Trevor Greyeyes
Anishinaabe 1964-

• Jupiter and Mars

David McLeod
Anishinaabe/Métis 1964-

• I write
• Statement of account #346
• boy I can't wait to get my cheque

Paul DePasquale
Haudenosaunee 1965-

• At the Edge of the Woods Is a Fire
• School of Hard Knocks

Shayla Elizabeth
Cree 1965-

• Chief miska muskwa

Gregory Scofield
Cree/Métis 1966-

• Women Who Forgot the Taste of Limes
• The Repatriation of Mrs. Ida M. Scofield
• Prayer Song for the Returning of Names and Sons

Warren Cariou
Métis 1966-

• Going to Canada

Gilbert James Fredette
Cree/Innu 1966-

• Visions or Screams
• A Lifetime Ago

Randy Lundy
Cree 1967-

• deer-sleep
• ghost dance
• ritual
• the trees are spirits

Ian Ross
Anishinaabe 1968-

• NSF
• Moose on the Road
• A Little Dog Wearin' Nail Polish

Nichola Tookoome Batzel
Inuk 1970-

• Our Stories Belong Here Too: Manitoba Inuk

Columpa C. Bobb
Coast Salish 1971-

• From Will Work 4 Home

Nahanni Fontaine
Anishinaabe 1971-

• Our Cherished Sisters, Mothers, Aunties, and Grandmothers: Violence Against Aboriginal Women

Rosanna Deerchild
Cree 1972-

• back home
• crazy horse is a girl
• northern lights
• paper indians

Colleen Simard
Anishinaabe/Cree 1972-

• Listen to the Roar of the Thunderbirds
• Thanks, Mr. Paul, for All Your Help

Maeengan Linklater
Anishinaabe 1974-

• Home

Althea Guiboche
Cree/Saulteaux 1974-

• I Found Myself the Other Day
• I Dream of Jigging

Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair
Anishinaabe 1976-

• Water Scroll

Donna Beyer
Cree/Anishinaabe 1976-

• nichimos
• backroads

Clayton Thomas-Müller
Cree 1977-

• The Seventh Generation

Ryan McMahon
Anishinaabe/Métis 1977-

• Hystereotypes, Eh?

Katherena V¿ermette
Métis 1977-

• nortendgrrl

David Alexander Robertson
Swampy Cree 1977-

• From Ends/Begins

Wabanakwut (Wab) Kinew
Anishinaabe 1981-

• Good Boy

Julie Lafreniere
Métis 1982-

• Adventures in Dating a White Guy

Jennifer Storm
Anishinaabe 1986-

• From Deadly Loyalties

Suzanne Morrissette
Métis 1987-

• incomplete thoughts on knowing through place

Rebecca Kantimere
Anishinaabe 1989-

• A Mother's Promise

Alyssa Bird
Cree/Anishinaabe 1993-

• Frustration

Permissions/Sources
Thematic Index

Product details

• Assisted by: Warren Cariou (Editor), Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair (Editor)
• Publisher: Portage & Main Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 15 to 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.01.2012
• EAN: 9781553793076
• ISBN: 978-1-55379-307-6
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: Debwe
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies