My Home As I Remember

by Maracle, Lee; Laronde, Sandra

• ISBN13: 9781896219530
• ISBN10: 1896219535
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Natural Heritage

Summary

This book describes literary and artistic achievements of First Nations, Inuit and Metis women across Canada and the United States, including contributions from New Zealand and Mexico. Their voices and creative expression of identity and place are richly varied, reflecting the depth of the culturally diverse energy found on these continents. Over 60 writers and visual artists are represented from nearly 25 nations, including writers such as Lee Maracle, Chrystos and Louise Bernice Halfe, and visual artists Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Teresa Marshall, Kenojuak Ashevak, Doreen Jensen and Shelley Niro; and some who are published for the first time in this landmark volume.

Table of Contents

Dedication
Preface	i
Introduction	iii
Poetry
spirit woman	2	(1)
Sharon L. White
Rez Times Three	3	(3)
Susan Beaver
Poetry as Ceremony	6	(1)
MariJo Moore
The History of Our Mothers' Dreams	7	(1)
Really Delicious Fry Bread	8	(2)
Chrystos
Autumn Compost	10	(2)
Drive Your Own Damn Canoe	12	(2)
Charlotte Kayenderes Green
home	14	(1)
Deborah Ramos
The Open Veins of Aztlan	15	(2)
writing brings healing close	17	(3)
Sharron Proulx-Turner
He mana 'o i huna `ia	20	(1)
D. Mahealani Dudoit
Heritage	21	(2)
Good Stories	23	(2)
Dawn Dumont
Kitchen Voices	25	(5)
Kimberly Blaeser
She Spends Her Time Thoughfully Weaving Beads Onto A Loom	30	(2)
April E. Lindala
Nindaniss Wawashkeshikwesens On A Winter Night	32	(1)
Linda LeGarde Grover
My Dad, Who Treats Life Like A Sacrament	33	(1)
Jingle Dress Dance	34	(1)
Sharon Syrette
my granny inspired me	35	(2)
Vera Wabegijig
Nimkis (Love Song From Earth)	37	(2)
A Dream	39	(1)
Melvina Watts
Mother Earth Speaks	40	(2)
Tina Goerz
My Precious Baby	42	(1)
Pearl Rose Greene
Celebrating Corn	43	(3)
Karenne Wood
Artworks
Killer Whale	46	(1)
April White
Woman on High Heels	47	(1)
Oviloo Tunnillie
Crux-I-Fiction	48	(1)
Teresa Marshall
Women Today	49	(1)
Napatchie Pootoogook
Safe Haven	50	(1)
Mary Pudlat
Heron	51	(1)
Melanie Printup Hope
La Mujer Chamana (The Shaman Woman)	52	(1)
Maurcia de la Torre Garcia
Untitled	53	(1)
Dozay (Arlene Christmas)
A Nation Is...(video still)	54	(6)
Cat Cayuga
Poetry
Like the Trails of Ndakinna	60	(1)
Cheryl Savageau
Earth Medicine for an Abenaki Woman, Landsick in L.A.	61	(1)
Trees	62	(2)
Kinosewak - Fish	64	(1)
Darmody Mumford
Sage	64	(1)
Learning to Listen	64	(2)
Chm nibssing Highway	66	(1)
Edna H. King
Grandmother's Dance	67	(1)
Land Sickness	68	(1)
Carol Snow Moon Bachofner
Abenaki Bones	68	(1)
We Go Forward	69	(1)
It's okay	70	(1)
Mary Lou Cecile Debassige
Culture	71	(1)
Post-Colonial Medicine Stories	72	(1)
Michelle Richmond
Water Song	72	(2)
Valley Spirits	74	(1)
Lucie Idlout
A Good Friend	75	(1)
Acts of Violence	76	(2)
The Fighter	78	(1)
Cynthia Lickers
Cradled in Corn	79	(2)
Sandra Abena Songbird-Naylor
Calling Me Home	81	(2)
Jillian Tipene
Hope	83	(1)
Rosemary White Shield
I Only Dream in Red	84	(1)
Surviving	85	(2)
Marion W. Macdonald
Talisman	87	(1)
Kate Berne Miller
Clear Vision	88	(4)
Kim Anderson
Artworks
Riding on Mother Owl	92	(1)
Kenojuak Ashevak
the earth is for everyone	93	(1)
Joane Cardinal-Schubert
A Day in March	94	(1)
Shelley Niro
My Mother	95	(1)
Dolly Peltier
The Beauty You See Around You Is Your Own	96	(1)
Merlin Homer
Women - A Creation Story	97	(1)
LauraLee K. Harris
Rock Throwers of Lasalle	98	(1)
Sondra Cross
How Do You Show That You're Indian? (detail)	99	(1)
Heather J. Henry
An Indian Act	100	(1)
Maria Hupfield
My Great-Grandmother With Lip Labrett	101	(5)
Doreen Jensen
Short Stories
Arrest This Memory	106	(6)
Lee Maracle
Ni-danis ``My Daughter''	112	(3)
Ann Wesley
Crystal, The Fancy Shawl Dancer	115	(3)
Murielle Borst
Dear Marie	118	(1)
Marie Pruitt
Excerpt from Moose to Moccasins	119	(3)
Madeline Katt Theriault
Ama's Home	122	(2)
Frances Beaulieu
Excerpts from journal: ``Travelling to Malaysia and then Home''	124	(9)
Louise Bernice Halfe
Gifts From the Trapline	133	(4)
Abby Cote
A Memory of Childhood	137	(1)
Jan Bourdeau Waboose
A Long Time Ago	138	(2)
The Role of a Traditional Gitksan Artist	140	(3)
Doreen Jensen
The Many Homes of an Odawa Orphan	143	(2)
Gloria May Eshkibok
Acknowledgments	145	(1)
About the Editors	146