Mitoni Niya Nêhiyaw / Cree Is Who I Truly Am - Nêhiyaw-Iskwêw Mitoni Niya / Me, I Am Truly a Cree Woman

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Whitecalf
• Assisted by: Freda Ahenakew (Editor), H C Wolfart (Editor), H. C. Wolfart (Editor), Freda Ahenakew (Translation), H C Wolfart (Translation), H. C. Wolfart (Translation)
• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
• Languages: Cree
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9780887559488
• ISBN: 978-0-88755-948-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 676 g
• Series: Algonquian Text Society; Publications of the Algonquian
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore