About Emma Minde Emma Minde, a Cree woman, was born in 1907 and raised in Saddle Lake, Alberta. Upon her marriage, she moved to Hobbema (now Maskwacis). She recorded her autobiography in 1988. Books by Emma Minde Their Example Showed Me the Way / kwayask ê-kî-pê-kiskinowâpahtihicik A Cree Woman's Life Shaped by Two Cultures by (author) Emma Minde translated by Freda Ahenakew & H.C. Wolfart