Naomi McIlwraith

kiyam (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Through poems that move between the two languages, McIlwraith explores the beauty of the intersection between nêhiyawêwin, the Plains Cree language, and English, âkayâsîmowin. Written to honour her father's facility in nêhiyawêwin and her mother's beauty and generosity as an inheritor of Cree, Ojibwe, Scottish, and English, kiyâm articulates a powerful yearning for family, history, peace, and love.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Athabasca University Press
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781926836713
• Artikelnr.: 37998821

Autorenporträt

NAOMI McILWRAITH is an educator, poet, and essayist, with a mixed Cree, Ojibwe, Scottish, and English inheritance. She currently works at Grant MacEwan University and has held instructional positions at the University of Alberta and The King's University College.

Inhaltsangabe

kîkwaya kâ-masinahikâtêki ôta contents
Foreword Jenna Butler ix
The Sounds of Plains Cree: A Guide to Pronunciation xi
 
Family Poems
The Road to Writer's Block (A Poem to Myself) 5
Trademark Translation 12
paskwâhk  On the Prairie 13
kiya kâ-pakaski-nîmihitoyan   You Who Dance SoBrightly 15
tawâw  There Is Room, Always Room for One More 17
Perfect Not Perfect 20
tawastêw  The Passage Is Safe 21
pahkwêsikan Bread 23
ê-wîtisânîhitoyâhk asici pîkiskwêwin  Language Family28
ê-wîtisânîhitoyâhk êkwa ê-pêyâhtakowêyâhk Relative Clause33
Critical Race Theory at Canadian Tire 39
 
Reclamation Poems
Cree Lessons 43
tânisi ka-isi-nihtâ-âhpinihkêyan How to Tan a Hide 45
aniki nîso nâpêwak kâ-pîkiskwêcik Two Men Talking 49
nohtâwiy opîkiskwêwin Father Tongue 52
ninitâhtâmon kititwêwiniwâwa I Borrow Your Words 58
aniki nîso nâpêwak kâ-masinahikêcik Two Men Writing61
sâpohtawân Ghost Dance 62
ê-kî-pîcicîyâhk  We Danced Round Dance 66
 
A Few Ideas fromamiskwacî-wâskahikanihk
The Young Linguist 73
tânisi ka-isi-nihtâ-pimîhkêyan How to Make Pemmican74
 
History Poems
maskihkiy maskwa iskwêw ôma wiya ohci For Medicine BearWoman 87
mistahi-maskwa 91
Take This Rope and This Poem (A Letter for Big Bear) 94
sôhkikâpawi, nitôtêm Stand Strong, My Friend 98
kâh-kîhtwâm Again and Again 102
nikî-pê-pimiskân I Came This Way by Canoe 107
Spinning 110
Practicing for My Defence 112
Like a Bead on a String 115
ihkatawâw ay-itwêhiwêw The Marsh Sends a Message 116
kakwêcihkêmowin ohci kânata otâcimowina 117
A Question for Canadian History 118
kiskinohamâkêwin ohci kânata otâcimowina 119
An Instruction for Canadian History 120
kiyâm Let It Be 121
 
Notes on the Poems 123
Cree-English Correspondences 127
Bibliography 153
Publication Credits 157
Acknowledgements 159