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Cree Narrative Memory: From Treaties to Contemporary Times

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Neal McLeod

144 pages, 1 map, 14 photographs, index, bibliography, Cree glossary, 6 x 9, paper, summer 2007
ISBN13 978-1895830-316

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction

1: Cree Narrative Memory
   wâhkôhtowin (Kinship) and Narrative Memory
   The Reliability of Collective Narrative Memory
   Toward a Notion of Spiritual History / âtayôhkêwina

2: Cree Narrative of Place
   mistasiniy
   Other Important Places
   Communication with the Landscape and Other Beings
   Dreaming the World

3: Rethinking Treaty in the Spirit of mistahi-maskwa (Big Bear)
   The Historical Context of Treaty Six
   mistahi-maskwa and wîhkasko-kisêyin: Different Approaches to Treaty

4: kâ-miyikowisiyahk: What the Powers Have Given Us
   mistahi-maskwa's Resistance
   The Spirit of mistahi-maskwa

5: Spatial and Spiritual Exile of the nêhiyawak (Cree People)
   Dwelling in the Familiar
   Exile
   Spatial Exile
   Spiritual Exile and the Residential Schools

6: Coming Home Through Stories
   Playful and Humorous Treaty Stories
   Exile
   Coming Home

7: pîkahin okosisa: A Cree Story of Change
   Historical Context of the Story
   pîkahin okosisa: The Story

8: Embodied Memory: Contemporary Cree Political Identity
   The League of Indians
   The Creation of Modern Indigenous Institutions

9: Cree Narrative Imagination
   Modernity and Colonialism: Dislocation from Collective Sound and Memory
   Narrative Imagination: Bridging Past, Present, and Future through âtayôhkêwina
   Indigenous Theory
   Dialogue and Poetry: A Paradigm for Indigenous Theory

Appendix A: Cree Glossary
Appendix B: Neal McLeod's Family Tree
Appendix C: Map of Local Cree Territory
Notes
Selected Bibliography Index
About the Author

Neal McLeod examines the history of the nêhiyawak (Cree People) of western Canada from the massive upheavals of the 1870s and the reserve period to the vibrant cultural and political rebirth of contemporary times. Central to the text are the narratives of McLeod's family, which give first hand examples of the tenacity and resiliency of the human spirit while providing a rubric for reinterpreting the history of Indigenous people, drawing on Cree worldviews and Cree narrative structures.

In a readable style augmented with extensive use of the Cree language throughout, McLeod draws heavily on original research, the methodology of which could serve as a template for those doing similar work. While the book is based on the Cree experience of the Canadian prairies, its message and methodology are applicable to all Indigenous societies.

Neal McLeod holds a doctorate in Interdisciplinary Studies, and currently teaches Indigenous Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. In addition to being a visual artist and entertainer, he has published a book of poetry, Songs to Kill a Wihtikow, and has another forthcoming entitled Gabriel's Beach. He is Cree and Swedish, and was born and raised in Saskatchewan.

Price: $ 25.00