Title:
One Native life / Richard Wagamese.
ISBN:
9781553653127
Personal Author:
Edition:
First paperback edition.
Publication Information:
Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, 2009.
©2008
Physical Description:
xi, 257 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
Book I: Ahki (Earth) -- Book II: Ishskwaday (Fire) -- Book III: Nibi (Water) -- Book IV: Ishpiming (Universe).
Book. 1. Ahki (Earth): Language of fishermen -- Riding with the Cartwrights -- Kiss -- In Apache territory -- Flag on the mountain -- Way to Arcturus -- Upside down and backwards -- Bringing in the sheaves -- My nine-volt heart -- Wood ducks -- Freeing the pike -- My friend Shane -- Chasing Ricky Lark -- Taking flight -- A kindred spirit -- Running after Werezak. -- Book 2. Ishskwaday (Fire): Lemon pie with Muhammad Ali -- Up from the pavement -- Tabletop TV -- Ferris wheel -- Question -- A hand on the lid of the world -- A dream of language -- Driving Thunder Road -- Ways of seeing -- On the road -- Night John Lennon died -- Kid who couldn't dance. -- Book 3. Nibi (Water): Being Buffalo Cloud -- Making bannock -- Birth and death of Super Injun -- Country between us -- Learning Ojibway -- Animal People -- Finding the old ones -- Man walking by the crooked water -- A raven tale -- Shooting Trudeau -- Medicine wheel -- Coming to Beedahbun thunder teachings -- Vanishing points -- Beetle trees -- UFOs -- Two skunks -- Bringing back the living room -- Butterfly teachings -- To love this country -- Firekeeper -- Ceremony -- Sharing circle -- Stripping it down. -- Book 4. Ishpiming (Universe): Neighbours -- Doe -- Rules for radicals -- Scars -- My left arm -- Planting -- Wind is the carrier of song -- All the mornings of the world -- Forest, not the trees -- Living legends -- Playing with your eyes closed -- What it comes to mean -- Walking the territory.
Summary:
"One Native Life is a look back down the road Wagamese has travelled. It's about the things he's learned as a human being, a man and an Ojibway in his fifty-two years on the planet. Whether he's writing about making bannock, playing baseball, listening to the wind, meeting Johnny Cash or running away with the circus, these are stories told in a healing spirit. This is a book about roots: uncovering them, tending them, watching life spring up all around you. It is also a book about Canada. Acceptance is an Aboriginal principle, and Wagamese has come to see that we are all neighbours here. Once we understand that, he says, we realize it's all one great, grand tale."--Jacket
Personal Subject:
OCLC Number:
ocn336933322
Availability:
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