| Description |
273 pages : [8] unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm. |
| Summary |
When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who'd raised him. Born to an Anishinaabe father and a non-native mother, he has a foot in both cultures. He is a Sundancer, an academic, a former rapper, a hereditary chief, and an urban activist. Kinew writes affectingly of his own struggles in his twenties to find the right path, eventually giving up a self-destructive lifestyle to passionately pursue music and martial arts. From his unique vantage point, he offers an inside view of what it means to be an educated aboriginal living in a country that is just beginning to wake up to its aboriginal history and living presence. |
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Kinew, Wab, 1981-
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Kinew, Wab, 1981- -- Family.
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Kinew, Tobasonakwut.
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Native peoples -- Canada -- Residential schools.
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Native musicians -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Biography.
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Broadcasters -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Biography.
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Ojibwa Indians -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9780670069347 |
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0670069345 |
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