{"product_id":"wihtamawik-tell-them-on-a-life-of-inspiration-louise-bernice-halfe-sky-dancer","title":"wîhtamawik \/ Tell Them: On a Life of Inspiration","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCree poet and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ekēhtē-aya\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer’s genre-bending collection chronicles her childhood in a cabin on reserve, through the Indian Residential School system, and into her reclamation of her \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003enēhiýaw\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003elanguage, culture, and spirituality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\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.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eI helped gather, dry, and grind their medicines. I inhaled the medicines’ power and ingested it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eWhen I left for residential school all this fell asleep.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoet Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer tells the story of how she woke up from the trauma of separation in these never-before-collected essays and new poems about her life and 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 in the practice of observing and being in relationship with the land as it “constantly gives birth to itself.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ewītāmōwik \/ Tell Them! \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a stunning love song to\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003enēhiýaw \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eways of knowing—ways which Halfe has reclaimed from the violence of colonization to celebrate their survival and share their enduring relevance with future generations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLouise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eis an acclaimed \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003enēhiýaw\u003c\/span\u003e (Plains Cree) poet and writer from the Saddle Lake First Nation in Alberta. She has been the recipient of multiple awards and appointments for her work, including the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal, Saskatchewan Provincial Poet Laureate, Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, King Charles III Coronation Medal, and Member of the Order of Canada.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Louise Bernice Halfe - Sky Dancer","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":51485292101949,"sku":null,"price":27.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/91a2fSkGVCL._SL1500.jpg?v=1773278195","url":"https:\/\/thebookarchive.ca\/products\/wihtamawik-tell-them-on-a-life-of-inspiration-louise-bernice-halfe-sky-dancer","provider":"The Book Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}