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Join Louise Bernice Halfe-Sky Dancer for the Saskatoon launch of wîhtamawik/ Tell Them (University of Regina Press).This event will be held in the travel alcove and as a simultaneous YouTube livestream.
Louise Bernice Halfe Sky Dancer is an acclaimed nêhiýaw (Plains Cree) poet and writer from the Saddle Lake First Nation in Alberta. She has been the recipient of multiple awards and appointments for her work, including the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal, Saskatchewan Provincial Poet Laureate, Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, King Charles III Coronation Medal, and Member of the Order of Canada.
Cree poet and kêhtê-aya (Elder) Louise Bernice Halfe–Sky Dancer chronicles her childhood in a cabin on reserve, through the Indian Residential School system, and into her reclamation of her nêhiýaw language, culture, and spirituality. In never-before-collected essays and new poems, Halfe–Sky Dancer tells the story of how she woke up from the trauma of separation and found the source of her inspiration: her culture and the land. In Cree, inspiration is described as a sudden insight. It can come from visits from spirit, from the charged reciprocal experience of being taught by Elders and teaching the next generation, from speaking Cree, which allows the poet to “somersault into memory,” and from the practice of observing and being in relationship with the land as it “constantly gives birth to itself.” wîhtamawik/Tell Them is a stunning love song to nêhiýaw ways of knowing—ways which Halfe has spent her life working to reclaim from the violence of colonization—to celebrate their survival and share their enduring teachings with future generations.
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3130-8th Street East, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Saskatchewan S7H 0W2
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