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Emma Minde's portraits of the family into which she was given in marriage are touching and instructive. They show us a young woman leaving her home at Saddle Lake, Alberta, to join a household of strangers at Hobbema - with not only a husband she has yet to meet, but also four powerful adults who will shape her life: her husband's parents, Mary-Jane and Dan Minde, and Dan Minde's younger brother Sam and his wife Mary.
Emma Minde's autobiography focusses on her relationship with these two women, Mary-Jane Minde and Mary Minde. The education that the newly arrived wife received in their households was built on obedience, hard work and a firmly held set of beliefs, seen as essential preparation for a life of uncertainty and rapid change, hardship and constant struggle.
These reminiscences, told to Freda Ahenakew, offer rare insights into a life history guided by two powerful forces: the traditional world of the Plains Cree and the Catholic missions with their boarding-schools, designed to re-make their charges entirely. Rarely has the interplay of these two world views - often in conflict, but often also, it seems, very much in harmony with one another - been sketched so eloquently as in Emma Minde's autobiography.
Emma Minde's stories are presented as she told them in Cree, with a translation into English on facing pages. With its Cree-English Glossary and an English Index to the Glossary, this work is an important Cree language resource.
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Biography, Cree language, Cree women, Glossaries, vocabularies, Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, Canada, North America, Biography: general, Cultural studies, Ethnography, Biography & Autobiography / General, Sociology, Indians of north america, biographyPeople
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Kwayask ê-kî-pê-kiskinowâpahtihicik =: their example showed me the way : a Cree woman's life shaped by two cultures
1997, University of Alberta Press
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Their Example Showed Me the Way / kwayask e-ki-pe-kiskinowapahtihicik A Cree Woman's Life Shaped by Two Cultures
July 15, 1997, The University of Alberta Press
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