| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 281 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
"This book shares the life story of Anishinaabe artist Rene Meshake in stories, poetry, and Anishinaabemowin "word bundles" that serve as a dictionary of Ojibwe poetics. Meshake was born in the railway town of Nakina in northwestern Ontario in 1948, and spent his early years living off-reserve with his grandmother in a matriarchal land-based community he calls Pagwashing. He was raised through his grandmother's "bush university," periodically attending Indian day school, but at the age of ten Rene was scooped into the Indian residential school system, where he suffered sexual abuse as well as the loss of language and connection to family and community. This residential school experience was lifechanging, as it suffocated his artistic expression and resulted in decades of struggle and healing. Now in his twenty-eighth year of sobriety, Rene is a successful multidisciplinary artist, musician and writer. Meshake's artistic vision and poetic lens provide a unique telling of a story of colonization and recovery. The material is organized thematically around a series of Meshake's paintings. It is framed by Kim Anderson, Rene's Odaanisan (adopted daughter), a scholar of oral history who has worked with Meshake for two decades. Full of teachings that give a glimpse of traditional Anishinaabek lifeways and worldviews, Injichaag: My Soul in Story is "more than a memoir.""-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Part one: Odinimanganikadjigan : Stories of nurturing -- part two: Nibinaabe : stories of warning -- part three: Wikwedong : stories of loss -- part four: Bimisi : stories of protection and transition -- part five: Miskwadesshimo : stories of recovery -- part six: Papawangani : stories of healing through art -- part seven: Migisiwiganj : stories of regeneration -- Epilogue by Kim Anderson. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Meshake, Rene, 1948-
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Artists -- Canada -- Biography.
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Artists. |
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Canada. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Ojibwa Indians -- Canada -- Biography.
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Ojibwa Indians. |
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Native artists -- Canada -- Biography. |
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Authors, Canadian (English) -- 20th century -- Biography. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Added Author |
Anderson, Kim, 1964- author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Meshake, Rene, 1948- Injichaag. Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2019 0887558488 9780887558481 (OCoLC)1090687293 |
| ISBN |
9780887558504 electronic book |
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088755850X electronic book |
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9780887558498 electronic book |
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0887558496 electronic book |
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