Alternate Title(s)

Senior issues collection

ISBN

007551690X

Statement of Responsibility

edited by Freda Ahenakew, Brenda Gardipy and Barbara Lafond.

Publication Information

Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson

Physical Description

250 p. : ill., ports. 23 cm.

Contents

Our stories: the roots that bind us / Martha Demientieff -- Nanabush and the rude eagle told by Sam Snake -- Dream winter / Wayne Keon -- Tikisiak / Rose Pamack -- The flood / Harry Robinson as told to Wendy Wickwire -- The birth of Minegoo / John Joe Sark -- The narrative of the white wolf / Robert Stewart, Kincolith as told to William Beynon -- Night flying woman / Ignatia Broker -- America before the United States / Jack Forbes -- Letter by Shinguaconse, 1849 -- Marketing the imaginary Indian / Daniel Francis -- Rocks / Jeannette Armstrong -- To live and do well / John Goddard -- Sahaquakegick / Armand Garnet Ruffo -- Harvesting traditional knowledge / Boyce Richardson -- The reason why I am afraid even though I am a fisherman / Ray A. Young Bear -- Journeys / Rosa Bell -- Residential school: a personal perspective / Tom Wassaykeesic -- Keepers of the past / Gary Smith -- Our elder - my Nokomis speaks / Jan Bourdeau -- Acoose: man standing above ground / Janice Acoose and Brenda Zeman -- The legend of Glooscap's door / Rita Joe -- A visit in mid-summer / Daniel David Moses -- from Keeper'n Me / Richard Wagamese -- Elders share perspectives on traditions, spirituality / Noel Archie Starr -- Sticktalk / Vickie Sears -- The crow hop / Garry Gottfriedson -- Quill earrings / Maureen Googoo -- God of the fiddle players / Gregory Scofield -- Powwows evolving from traditional to high-tech / Drew Hayden Taylor -- Untitled / Jerome Berthelette -- The burial mound / Annie Hansen -- from A conversation with Ruby Slipperjack / Hartmut Lutz -- Interview with Blaine Favel / Freda Ahenakew -- Northern light / Penny Williams -- the making of a modern elder / Sharron Chatteron -- Lady Oracle: Jane Ash Poitras / Gillian MacKay -- Two teens banished to remote islands from Saskatoon Star Phoenix -- A dispossessed people comes home / Andre Picard -- Natives take to business with zeal / Rudy Platiel -- Nunavut 1999 / Laura Robinson, Jim Green and William Belsey -- Just remember / Monica Goulet -- Spirit woman / Paula Gunn Allen.