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Family Poems

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

FAMILY POEMS

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