kôhkominawak ocihcîwâwa – Our Grandmothers’ Hands
Repatriating Métis Material Art
- Publisher
- Gabriel Dumont Institute Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2023
- Category
- NON-CLASSIFIABLE
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781988011226
- Publish Date
- Mar 2023
- List Price
- $65.00
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Description
kôhkominawak ocihcîwâwa – Our Grandmothers’ Hands: Repatriating Métis Material Art by Gregory Scofield contains photographs and details on over 100 “Grandmothers,” as Gregory refers to them. Gregory has repatriated Métis artifacts from across the world, from coast to coast in Canada, to England and Scotland, bringing the grandmothers home, and is sharing these grandmothers with everyone through this beautiful book. This resource also contains a historical overview by Sherry Farrell Racette.
About the author
Gregory Scofield is one of Canada's leading Aboriginal writers whose five collections of poetry have earned him both a national and international audience. He is known for his unique and dynamic reading style that blends oral storytelling, song, spoken word and the Cree language. His maternal ancestry can be traced back to the fur trade and to the Metis community of Kinosota, Manitoba, which was established in 1828 by the Hudson's Bay Company. His paternal ancestry is Jewish, Polish and German that is reflective of the immigrant experience to Canada at the turn of the century. His poetry and memoir, Thunder Through My Veins (HarperCollins, 1999) is taught at numerous universities and colleges throughout Canada and the U.S., and his work has appeared in many anthologies. He was the subject of a feature length documentary, Singing Home The Bones: A Poet Becomes Himself (The Maystreet Group, 2007) that aired on CHUM TV, BRAVO!, APTN, and the Saskatchewan Television Network. He has served as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Manitoba and Memorial University of Newfoundland. His latest collection, kipocihkan: Poems New & Selected (Nightwood) and the re-publication of I Knew Two Metis Women, along with the companion CD (Gabriel Dumont Institute) will be released in spring 2009. As well, his third collection of poetry, Love Medicine and One Song will be re-released by Kegedonce Press in 2009. He currently lives in Maple Ridge, B.C.
Awards
- Winner, Saskatchewan Book Awards - Publishing in Education
- Winner, Saskatchewan Book Awards - Indigenous Peoples' Publishing
- Short-listed, Saskatchewan Book Awards - Publishing Award
Other titles by
The 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
A Selection of the Shortlist
asowacikanisa: A Guide to Small Métis Bags
Thunder Through My Veins
A Memoir
Witness, I Am
Indigenous Men and Masculinities
Legacies, Identities, Regeneration
Masculindians
Conversations about Indigenous Manhood
maskisina
A Guide to Northern-Style Métis Moccasins
Louis
The Heretic Poems
wâpikwaniy
A Beginner’s Guide to Métis Floral Beadwork
