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Stolen life : the journey of a Cree woman
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Stolen life : the journey of a Cree woman
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia

1998
Book > Memoir
Creators
Wiebe, Rudy; Johnson, Yvonne
Description
"The award-winning Stolen Life is a remarkable collaborative work between a distinguished novelist and a Cree woman who broke a lifetime of silence to share her story. Imprisoned for murder at the age of twenty-seven, Yvonne Johnson sought out Rudy Wiebe, the chronicler of her ancestor Big Bear, as a means of coming to terms with her self, her past and the crime that defines her future. The ensuing story, which is told with Wiebe's compassion and infused with Johnson's intelligence and spirituality defies the grisly events of her life"--jacket.
Language
English

Subjects

Johnson, Yvonne, 1961-

More Information

Holding Library
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia
ISBN
0676970486; 9780676970487
Statement of Responsibility
Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson.
Edition
First edition
Publication Information
Toronto : Knopf Canada
Physical Description
xii, 444 pages ; 24 cm
Contents
1. Blood runs thick and long and for ever -- 2. My eyes became my voice -- 3. A killing in the family -- 4. The only good Indian -- 5. That's right, drive me to winter -- 6. Growing up in a beer bottle -- 7. Wetaskiwin: the place where peace is made -- 8. Down into disaster -- 9. Three days in September 1989 -- 10. If I gave you a gun, would you shoot me? -- 11. You have nothing to hope, and nothing to fear -- 12. The power of my name: why I must remember this -- 13. If I don't beat you up, you'll sleep with me? -- 14. Spirit keepers -- 15. What you did, and where you did it -- 16. Since the time when the Earth was first born -- Epilogue: where people are.
Electronic Location and Access
Also available online (authentication may be required)
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