TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whitecalf,Sarah
AU  - Wolfart,H.Christoph
AU  - Ahenakew,Freda
AU  - Whitecalf,Ted
AU  - Whitecalf,Sarah
AU  - Whitecalf,Sarah
TI  - Mitoni niya nêhiyaw - nêhiyaw-iskwêw mitoni niya =: Cree is who I truly am - me, I am truly a Cree woman 
T2  - Publications of the Algonquian Text Society = Collection de la Société d'édition de textes algonquiens
SN  - 9780887559464
AV  - PM989.W45 Z46 2021
U1  - 497/.323 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Winnipeg, Manitoba
PB  - University of Manitoba Press
KW  - Whitecalf, Sarah,
KW  - Cree language
KW  - Texts
KW  - Cree literature
KW  - Cree Indians
KW  - Saskatchewan
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Religion
KW  - Cri (Langue)
KW  - Textes
KW  - Littérature crie
KW  - Cris (Indiens)
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes
KW  - fast
KW  - Whitecalf, Sarah
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
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N2  - "Strong women dominate these reminiscences: the grandmother taught the girl whose mother refused to let her go to school, and the life-changing events they witnessed range from the ravages of the influenza epidemic of 1918-20, to murder committed in a jealous rage, to the abduction of a young woman by underground spirits who grant her healing powers upon her release. A highly personal document, these memoirs are altogether exceptional in recounting the thoughts and feelings of a Cree woman as she copes with the impacts of colonialism but also, in a key chapter, with her loneliness while tending a relative's children in a place far from home--and away from the company of other women. Her experiences and reactions throw fresh light on the lives lived by Plains Cree women on the Canadian prairies over much of the twentieth century. Sarah Whitecalf (1919-1991) spoke Cree exclusively, spending most of her life at Nakiwacîhk / Sweetgrass Reserve on the North Saskatchewan River. This is where Leonard Bloomfield was told what would be collected as Sacred Stories of the Sweet Grass Cree in 1925 and where a decade later David Mandelbaum apprenticed himself to Kâ-miyokîsihkwêw / Fineday, the step-grandfather in whose family Sarah Whitecalf grew up. In presenting a Cree woman's view of her world, these memoirs directly reflect the spoken word: Sarah Whitecalf's reminiscences are here printed in Cree exactly as she recorded them, with a close English translation on the facing page. These chapters constitute an autobiography of great personal authority and rare authenticity."--
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