Their Example Showed Me the Way; A Cree Woman's Life Shaped by Two Cultures (kwayask ê-kî-pê-kiskinowâpahtihicik )

Minde, Emma; Freda Ahenakew and H.C. Wolfart (ed. and trans.)

ISBN 10: 0888642911 / ISBN 13: 9780888642912

Published by The University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, 1997

About this Item

pp. 275. 8vo. Lightest shelfwear, ink inscription to inside front cover; near fine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Their Example Showed Me the Way; A Cree Woman's Life Shaped by Two Cultures (kwayask ê-kî-pê-kiskinowâpahtihicik )
• Publisher: The University of Alberta Press, Edmonton
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0888642911
• ISBN 13: 9780888642912
• Binding: Paperback
• Seller catalogs:
  • Indigenous Studies

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Synopsis

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 in Saddle Lake, Alberta, to join a household of strangers in Hobbema. In addition to the husband she has yet to meet, Emma comes to know four strong-willed people who will shape her life: her husband’s parents, Mary-Jane and Dan Minde, Dan’s younger brother, Sam, and his wife, Mary. These reminiscences, told to Freda Ahenakew, offer rare insights into a life guided by two powerful forces: the traditional world of the Plains Cree and the Catholic missions and boarding-schools of the day, designed to re-make their charges entirely. Rarely has the interplay of these two worlds€”often in conflict, yet oddly in harmony€”been sketched so eloquently as in this moving autobiography. Emma Minde’s stories are presented here as she told them in Cree, with a translation into English on the facing pages. With its Cre

About the Author

Emma Minde, a Cree woman, was born in 1907 and raised in Saddle Lake, Alberta. Upon her marriage, she moved to Hobbema (now Maskwacis). She recorded her autobiography in 1988.