Voices of the Plains Cree (Canadian Plains Studies(CPS))
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (948 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0889770832 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 130 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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To the delight of his Christian mother, Edward was ordained an Anglican priest in 1912 and assigned to Onion Lake, where he did missionary work with the Reverend John R. While on a train to Dauphin, Manitoba, Canon Edward Ahenakew suffered a stroke and was taken to a local hospital in Canora, where he died on July 12, 1961, at the age of 76. Matheson?whose daughter, Ruth Matheson Buck, would later play an important role in editing Edward's Cree stories. In 1935, Edward became
Chief Thunderchild's stories of a fierce and vanished freedom are reprinted here as he told them to Edward Ahenakew in 1923.
Parker, CBRA, 1997. -- Richard W. Ahenakew's short, powerful stories capture and convey an exquisite sense of triumph, tragedy, pathos, and the pride of freedom