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Otipemisiwak is a Plains Cree word describing the Metis, meaning ''the people who own themselves.'' Andrea Currie was born into a Metis family with a strong lineage of warriors, land protectors, writers, artists, and musicians - all of which was lost to her when she was adopted as an infant into a white family with no connection to her people. It was 1960, and the policy of removing children from their Indigenous families was firmly in place. Together with her younger adopted brother, also Metis, she struggled through her childhood, never feeling like she belonged in that world. When their adoptions fell apart during their teen years, the two siblings found themselves on different paths, yet they stayed connected. Currie takes us through her journey, from the harrowing time of bone-deep disconnection, to the years of searching and self-discovery, into the joys and sorrows of reuniting with her birth family. Finding Otipemisiwak weaves lyrical prose, poetry, and essays into an incisive commentary on the vulnerability of Indigenous children in a white supremacist child welfare system, the devastation of cultural loss, and the rocky road some people must walk to get to the truth of who they are. Her triumph over the state''s attempts to erase her as an Indigenous person is tempered by the often painful complexities of re-entering her cultural community while bearing the mark of the white world in which she was raised. Finding Otipemisiwak is the story of one woman''s fight - first to survive, then to thrive as a fully present member of her Nation and of the human family.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v němčině Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft Ethnologie Volkskunde

• Plný název: Finding Otipemisiwak
• Autor: Andrea Currie
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 272
• EAN: 9781551529554
• ISBN: 1551529556
• ID: 44783190
• Nakladatelství: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Hmotnost: 416 g
• Datum vydání: 08. October 2024

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