Full Description
The 25th anniversary of a historically significant collection, presented in Cree and English.
kôhkominawak otâcimowiniwâwa / Our Grandmothers' Lives As Told in Their Own Words is a collection of reminiscences and personal stories from the daily lives of seven Cree women over the past century, presented here in Cree and English. Recorded in their own language, these women share their memories of their lives and the history of their peoples, describing activities such as household chores, snaring rabbits and picking berries, going to school, marriage, bearing and raising children, and providing insights into the traditional teachings of a society in which the practical and spiritual are never far apart.
Contents
Foreword by Arok Wolvengrey
Preface to the 1992 Edition
Preface to the 1998 Reprint
kôhkominawak / ??????? / Our Grandmothersby Freda Ahenakew
Introduction to the Texts by H.C. Wolfart
I. Life in the Bush
1. Janet Feitz, Encounters with Bears.
2. Glecia Bear, Daily Life
3. Janet Feitz, Then and Now
4. Minnie Fraser, His First Moose
II Reserve Life
5. Glecia Bear, Lost and Found
6. Irene Calliou, Household Chores
7. Mary Wells, Fun and Games
8. Glecia Bear, A Woman's Life
III Dialogue
9. Alpha Lafond & Rosa Longneck, Reminiscences of Muskeg Lake, edited and translated by Freda Ahenakew & Arok Wolvengrey
Notes by H.C. Wolfart
