Stolen Life : The Journey of a Cree Woman

by Wiebe, Rudy

• ISBN13: 9780804010306
• ISBN10: 0804010307
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr

Author Biography

Yvonne Johnson was born and raised in Montana and now lives at the minimum security Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge for Native Women in Saskatchewan Rudy Wiebe, an Edmonton writer, won Canada's Governor General's Award for Fiction

Table of Contents

Prefatory Note	xi
Blood Runs Thick and Long and For Ever	1	(18)
My Eyes Became My Voice	19	(30)
A Killing in the Family	49	(26)
The Only Good Indian	75	(36)
That's Right, Drive Me to Winter	111	(34)
Growing Up in a Beer Bottle	145	(30)
Wetaskiwin: The Place Where Peace Is Made	175	(30)
Down into Disaster	205	(22)
Three Days in September 1989	227	(32)
If I Gave You a Gun, Would You Shoot Me?	259	(18)
You Have Nothing to Hope, and Nothing to Fear	277	(44)
The Power of My Name: Why I Must Remember This	321	(22)
If I Don't Beat You Up, You'll Sleep with Me?	343	(34)
Spirit Keepers	377	(16)
What You Did, and Where You Did It	393	(30)
Since the Time When the Earth Was First Born	423	(18)
Epilogue: Where People Are	441