Kwayask ê-kî-pê-kiskinowâpahtihicik =
Subtitle: their example showed me the way : a Cree woman's life shaped by two cultures
By: told by Emma Minde ; edited, translated and with a glossary by Freda Ahenakew & H.C. Wolfart.
Contributors: Ahenakew, Freda, 1932-; Wolfart, H. Christoph.
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Edmonton
Language: eng; cre
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Minde, Emma, -- 1907-; Minde family; Cree women -- Alberta -- Hobbema -- Biography; Cree language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Hobbema (Alta.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.; Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Other titles: Their example showed me the way.
Description: 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.
Notes: Text in Cree and English.

Includes bibliographical references.