Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity

Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree DignityFollowing his award winning debut memoir, Mamaskatch, which masterfully portrayed a Cree coming of age in rural Canada, Darrel J. McLeod continues the poignant story of his adulthood. In Mamaskatch, McLeod captured an early childhood full of the stories, scents, and sensations of his great grandfather's cabin, as well as the devastating separation from family, ensuing abuse, and eventual loss of his mother that permeated his adolescence. In the

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This book even provides a resource for thinking about how to view (or to experience) aging in America today

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