The reason you walk
By: Wab Kinew
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780670069347
Subjects: Biographies; Ojibwa (Indiens); Père et enfant; Musiciens autochtones; Indigenous peoples; Internats pour autochtones; Families; Indians of North America; Family; Ojibwa Indians; Personnalités de la radio et de la télévision; Residential schools; Broadcasters; Social conditions; Famille; Biography; Indian musicians
Description: When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who'd raised him. Born to an Anishinaabe father and a non-native mother, he has a foot in both cultures. He is a Sundancer, an academic, a former rapper, a hereditary chief, and an urban activist. Kinew writes affectingly of his own struggles in his twenties to find the right path, eventually giving up a self-destructive lifestyle to passionately pursue music and martial arts. From his unique vantage point, he offers an inside view of what it means to be an educated aboriginal living in a country that is just beginning to wake up to its aboriginal history and living presence.