Title: One Native life /
Authors: Wagamese, Richard
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Wagamese, Richard; Ojibwa Indians Biography; Indian authors Canada Biography.; Authors, Canadian (English) Biography.
Abstract: "One Native Life is a look back down the road Wagamese has travelled. It's about the things he's learned as a human being, a man and an Ojibway in his fifty-two years on the planet. Whether he's writing about making bannock, playing baseball, listening to the wind, meeting Johnny Cash or running away with the circus, these are stories told in a healing spirit. This is a book about roots: uncovering them, tending them, watching life spring up all around you. It is also a book about Canada. Acceptance is an Aboriginal principle, and Wagamese has come to see that we are all neighbours here. Once we understand that, he says, we realize it's all one great, grand tale."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Bk. 1. Ahki (Earth) - The Language of Fishermen - Riding with the Cartwrights - The Kiss - In Apache Territory - The Flag on the Mountain - The Way to Arcturus - Upside Down and Backwards - Bringing in the Sheaves - My Nine-Volt Heart - Wood Ducks - Freeing the Pike - My Friend Shane - Chasing Ricky Lark - Taking Flight - A Kindred Spirit - Running after Werezak - Bk. 2. Ishskwaday (Fire) - Lemon Pie with Muhammad Ali - Up from the Pavement - The Tabletop TV - Ferris Wheel - The Question - A Hand on the Lid of the World - A Dream of Language - Driving Thunder Road - Ways of Seeing - On the Road - The Night John Lennon Died - The Kid Who Couldn't Dance - Bk. 3. Nibi (Water) - Being Buffalo Cloud - Making Bannock - The Birth and Death of Super Injun - The Country between Us - Learning Ojibway - The Animal People - Finding the Old Ones - Man Walking by the Crooked Water - A Raven Tale - Shooting Trudeau - The Medicine Wheel - Coming to Beedahbun Thunder Teachings - Vanishing Points - The Beetle Trees - UFOs - Two Skunks - Bringing Back the Living Room - Butterfly Teachings - To Love This Country - Firekeeper - Ceremony - The Sharing Circle - Stripping It Down - Bk. 4. Ishpiming (Universe) Neighbours - The Doe - Rules for Radicals - Scars - My Left Arm - Planting - Wind Is the Carrier of Song - All the Mornings of the World - The Forest, Not the Trees - Living Legends - Playing with Your Eyes Closed - What It Comes to Mean - Walking the Territory.