{"product_id":"9781779400840","title":"wîhtamawik \/ Tell Them","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCree poet and \u003cem\u003ekêhtê-aya\u003c\/em\u003e Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer chronicles her childhood in a cabin on reserve, through the Indian Residential School system, and into her reclamation of her \u003cem\u003enêhiyaw\u003c\/em\u003e language, culture, and spirituality.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy parents taught us the art of observation. I learned to hunt, skin, and butcher game through non-verbal methods. I also watched my grandparents work on the land and live their spirituality. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eI helped gather, dry, and grind their medicines. I inhaled the medicines’ power and ingested it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e When I left for residential school all this fell asleep. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn never-before-collected essays and new poems, poet and \u003cem\u003ekêhtê-aya\u003c\/em\u003e (Elder) Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer tells the story of how she woke up from the trauma of separation and found the source of her inspiration: her culture and the land. In Cree, inspiration is described as a sudden insight. It can come from visits from spirit, from the charged reciprocal experience of being taught by Elders and teaching the next generation, from speaking Cree, which allows the poet to “somersault into memory,” and from the practice of observing and being in relationship with the land as it “constantly gives birth to itself.” \u003cem\u003ewîhtamawik \/ Tell Them\u003c\/em\u003e is a stunning love song to \u003cem\u003enêhiyaw\u003c\/em\u003e ways of knowing—ways which Halfe has spent her life working to reclaim from the violence of colonization, in order to celebrate their survival and share their enduring teachings with future generations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":47838078959855,"sku":"9781779400840","price":27.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0559\/3877\/7237\/files\/BNCImageAPI_41b96189-6efe-44fc-a100-0b92d6dd103f.jpg?v=1772466388","url":"https:\/\/www.entershinebookshop.ca\/products\/9781779400840","provider":"Entershine Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}