One Native Life
Published on 1. July 2009
240 pages
978-1-926685-76-2 (ISBN)
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One Native Life is a look back down the road Richard Wagamese has traveled - from childhood abuse to adult alcoholism - in reclaiming his identity. It's about what he has learned as a human being, a man, and an Ojibway in his 52 years on Earth. Whether he's writing about playing baseball, running away with the circus, making bannock, or attending a sacred bundle ceremony, these are stories told in a healing spirit. Through them, Wagamese shows readers how to appreciate life for the journey it is.
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One Native Life
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07/2009
Greystone Books,Canada
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Richard Wagamese is an Ojibway from the Wabasseemoong First Nation in northwestern Ontario. He is the author of three novels: Keeper'n Me, A Quality of Light and the award-winning Dream Wheels. His autobiographical book For Joshua was published to critical acclaim in 2002.
Richard Wagamese has worked as a newpaper reporter and a broadcaster for radio and TV. His columns for the Calgary Herald won a National Newspaper Award in 1990. He lives outside Kamloops, British Columbia.
Richard Wagamese has worked as a newpaper reporter and a broadcaster for radio and TV. His columns for the Calgary Herald won a National Newspaper Award in 1990. He lives outside Kamloops, British Columbia.
Content
Introduction
I
Thanking Joe Tacknyk
Riding with the Cartwrights
The Kiss
In Apache Territory
The Flag on the Mountain
The Way to Arcturus
Upside Down and Backwards
Bringing in the Sheaves
My Nine-Volt Heart
Wood Ducks
The Pike
Remembering Shane Rivers
Chasing Ricky Lark
Taking Flight
Dimples and Me
Running after Werezak
II
Lemon Pie with Muhammad Ali
Meeting the Street People
The Table Top TV
The Ferris Wheel
The Question
Finding the Listening Room
A Dream of Language
Driving Thunder Road
Ways of Seeing
On the Road
The Night John Lennon Died
The Kid Who Couldn't Dance
III
Being Buffalo Cloud
Making Bannock
The Birth of Super Injun
The Country between Us
Learning Ojibway
The Animal People
Finding the Old Ones
Reaching Grandfather
A Raven's Tale
Shooting Trudeau
Medicine Wheel
Coming to Beedahbun
Opening Sacred Bundles
Vanishing Points
The Beetle Trees
UFOs
Two Skunks
Getting Back to the Living Room
The Sharing Circle
Firekeeper
To Love This Country
Ceremony
What Butterflies Teach Us
Stripping It Down
IV
Neighbours
The Doe
Rules for Radicals
Scars
My Left Arm
Planting
Touched by the Cross
Wind Is the Carrier of Song
All the Mornings of the World
The Forest, Not the Trees
Living Legends
Playing with Your Eyes Closed
What It Comes to Mean
Walking the Territory
I
Thanking Joe Tacknyk
Riding with the Cartwrights
The Kiss
In Apache Territory
The Flag on the Mountain
The Way to Arcturus
Upside Down and Backwards
Bringing in the Sheaves
My Nine-Volt Heart
Wood Ducks
The Pike
Remembering Shane Rivers
Chasing Ricky Lark
Taking Flight
Dimples and Me
Running after Werezak
II
Lemon Pie with Muhammad Ali
Meeting the Street People
The Table Top TV
The Ferris Wheel
The Question
Finding the Listening Room
A Dream of Language
Driving Thunder Road
Ways of Seeing
On the Road
The Night John Lennon Died
The Kid Who Couldn't Dance
III
Being Buffalo Cloud
Making Bannock
The Birth of Super Injun
The Country between Us
Learning Ojibway
The Animal People
Finding the Old Ones
Reaching Grandfather
A Raven's Tale
Shooting Trudeau
Medicine Wheel
Coming to Beedahbun
Opening Sacred Bundles
Vanishing Points
The Beetle Trees
UFOs
Two Skunks
Getting Back to the Living Room
The Sharing Circle
Firekeeper
To Love This Country
Ceremony
What Butterflies Teach Us
Stripping It Down
IV
Neighbours
The Doe
Rules for Radicals
Scars
My Left Arm
Planting
Touched by the Cross
Wind Is the Carrier of Song
All the Mornings of the World
The Forest, Not the Trees
Living Legends
Playing with Your Eyes Closed
What It Comes to Mean
Walking the Territory
