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Injichaag: My Soul in Story : Anishinaabe Poetics in Art and Words

11 Oct 2019

This book shares the life story of Anishinaabe artist Rene Meshake in stories, poetry, and Anishinaabemowin “word bundles” that serve as a dictionary of Ojibwe poetics. Meshake was born in the railway town of Nakina in northwestern Ontario in 1948, and spent his early years living off-reserve with his grandmother in a matriarchal land-based community he calls Pagwashing. He was raised through his grandmother’s “bush university,” periodically attending Indian day school, but at the age of ten Rene was scooped into the Indian residential school system, where he suffered sexual abuse as well as the loss of language and connection to family and community. This residential school experience was lifechanging, as it suffocated his artistic expression and resulted in decades of struggle and healing. Now in his twenty-eighth year of sobriety, Rene is a successful multidisciplinary artist, musician and writer. Meshake’s artistic vision and poetic lens provide a unique telling of a story of colonization and recovery. The material is organized thematically around a series of Meshake’s paintings. It is framed by Kim Anderson, Rene’s Odaanisan (adopted daughter), a scholar of oral history who has worked with Meshake for two decades. Full of teachings that give a glimpse of traditional Anishinaabek lifeways and worldviews, Injichaag: My Soul in Story is “more than a memoir.”
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Authors

Rene Meshake, Kim Anderson

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references
Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Date published
2019.
Description conventions
rda
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
700.92
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
23
Distributor
Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
General Note
Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
Geographic Area Code
n-cn---
ISBN
9780887558504 0887558488
LCCN
N6549.M47
LCCN Item number
A2 2019eb
Modifying agency
NLC
Original cataloging agency
NLC
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (xvii, 281 pages)
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario
Publisher or Distributor Number
CaOOCEL
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)kck00240496 (OCoLC)1107440874 (CaOOCEL)457011
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Transcribing agency
YDX

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