Calling Down the Sky: Tenth Anniversary Edition - Rosanna Deerchild

Descriere Calling Down the Sky: Tenth Anniversary Edition - Rosanna Deerchild

\nRosanna Deerchild has been storytelling for more than twenty years, currently as host of CBC Radio One's Unreserved, a show that shares Indigenous community, culture, and conversation. Rosanna has also developed and hosted This Place, a podcast series for CBC Books around the Indigenous anthology This Place: 150 Years Retold. Her debut poetry collection, this is a small northern town, won the 2009 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Her second book, calling down the sky, is her mother's Residential School survivor story. A Cree from O-Pipon-Na-Piwan Cree Nation at South Indian Lake in northern Manitoba, Rosanna now lives and works in her found home of Winnipeg.\n \nSolomon Ratt was born to parents who were hunters and fishers. At the age of six Solomon was abducted from his home and taken to the residential school where he began his schooling. After the residential school he attended Riverside Collegiate High School. He attended the University of Regina earning two BAs and an MA. He is a recipient of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit (2021), the Queens's Platinum Medallion (2022), and was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada (2024).\n \nHe taught Cree at the First Nations University since 1984 (as a sessional) and full time since 1986, retiring in 2022. Solomon's publications include nīhithaw ācimowina - Woods Cree Stories (2014), māci-nēhiyawēwin - Beginning Cree (2016), and āhkami-nēhiyawētān - Let's Keep Speaking Cree (2022), published by the University of Regina Press. Another book published by the UR Press, kā-pē-isi-kiskisiyān / ᑳᐯᐃᓯᑭᐢᑭᓯᔮᐣ / The Way I Remember, won two Saskatchewan Book Awards in 2024.\n

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9781552455159

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