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kiyâm

by Naomi McIlwraith

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  • A Celebration of Artistic Resilience, Naomi McIlwraith reading from *kiyâm*

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  • Selected poems from *kiyâm* read by the author

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Single Resources

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    kiyâm ∽ Let It Be

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    Like a Bead on a String

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    kiskinohamâkêwin ohci kânata otâcimowina ∽ An Instruction for Canadian History

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    pahkwêsikan ∽ Bread

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    Take This Rope and This Poem (A Letter for Big Bear)

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    Trademark Translation

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    tânisi ka-isi-nihtâ-âhpinihkêyan ∽ How to Tan a Hide

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    kâh-kîhtwâm ∽ Again and Again

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    kakwêcihkêmowin ohci kânata otâcimowina ∽ A Question for Canadian History

  • Video

    A Celebration of Artistic Resilience, Naomi McIlwraith reading from kiyâm

12 Total Resources

Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Foreword
  • The Sounds of Plains Cree: A Guide to Pronunciation
  • kiyâm
  • Family Poems
    • The Road to Writer’s Block (A Poem to Myself)
    • Trademark Translation
    • paskwâhk - On the Prairie
    • kiya kâ-pakaski-nîmihitoyan - You Who Dance So Brightly
    • tawâw - There Is Room, Always Room for One More
    • Perfect Not Perfect
    • tawastêw - The Passage Is Safe
    • pahkwêsikan - Bread
    • ê-wîtisânîhitoyâhk asici pîkiskwêwin - Language Family
    • ê-wîtisânîhitoyâhk êkwa ê-pêyâhtakowêyâhk - Relative Clause
    • Critical Race Theory at Canadian Tire
  • Reclamation Poems
    • Cree Lessons
    • tânisi ka-isi-nihtâ-âhpinihkêyan - How to Tan a Hide
    • aniki nîso nâpêwak kâ-pîkiskwêcik - Two Men Talking
    • nôhtâwiy opîkiskwêwin - Father Tongue
    • ninitâhtâmon kititwêwiniwâwa - I Borrow Your Words
    • aniki nîso nâpêwak kâ-masinahikêcik - Two Men Writing
    • sâpohtawân - Ghost Dance
    • ê-kî-pîcicîyâhk - We Danced Round Dance
  • A Few Ideas from amiskwacî-wâskahikanihk
    • The Young Linguist
    • tânisi ka-isi-nihtâ-pimîhkêyan - How to Make Pemmican
  • History Poems
    • maskihkiy maskwa iskwêw ôma wiya ohci - For Medicine Bear Woman
    • mistahi-maskwa
    • Take This Rope and This Poem (A Letter for Big Bear)
    • sôhkikâpawi, nitôtêm - Stand Strong, My Friend
    • kâh-kîhtwâm - Again and Again
    • nikî-pê-pimiskân - I Came This Way by Canoe
    • Spinning
    • Practicing for My Defence
    • Like a Bead on a String
    • ihkatawâw ay-itwêhiwêw - The Marsh Sends a Message
    • kakwêcihkêmowin ohci kânata otâcimowina - A Question for Canadian History
    • kiskinohamâkêwin ohci kânata otâcimowina - An Instruction for Canadian History
    • kiyâm - Let It Be
  • Notes on the Poems
  • Cree-English Correspondences
  • Bibliography
  • Publication Credits
  • Acknowledgements

Metadata

  • issn
    1917-9413
  • publisher
    Athabasca University Press
  • publisher place
    Edmonton, AB, Canada
  • rights
    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5 CA).
  • rights holder
    Naomi McIlwraith
  • series title
    Mingling Voices
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