My Home As I Remember
Description
My Home As I Remember describes literary and artistic achievements of First Nations, Inuit and Metis women across Canada and the United States, including contributions from New Zealand and Mexico. Their voices and creative expression of identity and place are richly varied, reflecting the depth of the culturally diverse energy found on these continents.
Over 60 writers and visual artists are represented from nearly 25 nations, including writers such as Lee Maracle, Chrystos and Louise Bernice Halfe, and visual artists Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Teresa Marshall, Kenojuak Ashevak, Doreen Jensen and Shelley Niro; and some who are published for the first time in this landmark volume.
Lee Maracle is the author of numerous books, including Ravensong. Sandra Laronde, writer/actor, is Executive Director of Native Women in the Arts.
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- One: Poetry
- spirit woman
- Rez Times- Three
- Poetry as Ceremony
- The History of Our Mothers' Dreams
- Really Delicious Fry Bread
- autumn Compost
- Drive Your Own Damn Canoe
- home
- The Open Veins of Aztlan
- writing brings healing close
- He mana 'o ihuna'ia
- Heritage
- Good Stories
- kitchen Voices
- She Spends Her Time Thoughfully Weaving Beads Onto A Loom
- Nindaniss Wawashkeshikwesens On A Winter Night
- My Dad, Who Treats Life Like A Sacrament
- The Jingle Dress
- my granny inspired me
- Nimkis (Love Song From Earth)
- a Dream
- Mother Earth Speaks
- My Precious Baby
- Celebrating Corn
- Two: Artworks
- April White
- Oviloo Tunnillie
- Teresa Marshall
- Napatchie Pootoogook
- Mary Pudlat
- Melanie Printup Hope
- Maurcia de la Torre Garcia
- Dozay (Arlene Christmas)
- Cat Cayuga
- Three: Poetry
- Like the Trails of Ndakinna
- Earth Medicine for an Abenaki Woman, Landsick in L.A.
- Trees
- Kinosewak - Fish
- Sage
- Learning to Listen
- Chm nihssing Highway
- Grandmother's Dance
- Land Sickness
- abenaki Bones
- We Go Forward
- It's okay
- CULTURE
- Post-Colonial Medicine Stories
- Water Song
- Valley Spirits
- A Good Friend
- Acts of Violence
- The Fighter
- Cradled in Corn
- Calling Me Home
- Hope
- I Only Dream in Red
- Surviving
- Talisman
- Clear Vision
- Four: Artworks
- Kenojuak ashevak
- Joane Cardinal-Schubert
- Shelley Niro
- Dolly Peltier
- Merlin Homer
- LauraLee K. Harris
- Sondra Cross
- Heather J. Henry
- Maria Hupfield
- Doreen Jensen
- Five: Stories
- arrest This Memory
- Ni-danis "My Daughter"
- Crystal, The Fancy Shawl Dancer
- Dear Marie:
- Excerpt from Moose to Moccasins
- ama's Home
- Excerpts from journal: Travelling to Malaysia and then Home"
- Gifts From the Trapline
- a Memory of Childhood
- A Long Time Ago
- The Role of a Traditional Gitksan Artist
- The Many Homes of an Odawa Orphan
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editors
