Bear Bones & Feathers
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Bear Bones & Feathers

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Bear Bones & Feathers

About this book

Winner of the Milton Acorn People’s Poet Award

Employing Indigenous spirituality, black comedy, and the memories of her own childhood as healing arts, celebrated poet Louise B. Halfe – Sky Dancer finds an irrepressible source of strength and dignity in her people. Bear Bones and Feathers offers moving portraits of Halfe’s grandmother (a medicine woman whose life straddled old and new worlds), her parents (both trapped in a cycle of jealousy and abuse), and the people whose pain she witnessed on the reserve and at residential school.

Originally published by Coteau Books in 1994, Bear Bones and Feathers won the Milton Acorn People’s Poet Award, and was a finalist for the Spirit of Saskatchewan Award, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Gerald Lampert Award.


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Information

Publisher
Brick Books
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781771315784

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Also by Louise B. Halfe – Sky Dancer
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Foreword to the New Edition
  8. Bone Lodge
  9. Ghost Dance
  10. ayamihâwina — Old Rock Mother
  11. Crying for Voice
  12. Spirits
  13. pâhkahkos
  14. nôhkom âtayôhkân 1
  15. nôhkom âtayôhkân 2
  16. Sundog Mate
  17. nôhkom, Medicine Bear
  18. Off with Their Heads
  19. nôhkom’s Ice Cream and Syrup
  20. She Told Me
  21. Grandma’s Apprentice
  22. Men in My Life
  23. He Has Gone to Ground
  24. Rituals
  25. Elder’s Waltz
  26. Grouse
  27. Wagon Ride
  28. Chokecherries
  29. Loving Obscenities
  30. Body Politics
  31. Lizard’s Curse
  32. Free from Grandma
  33. Tuberculosis Thief
  34. Womanchild
  35. Ukrainian Hour
  36. Aborting
  37. Fog Inside Mama
  38. First Moon
  39. Emma
  40. Bareback in the Snakehills
  41. Maintain the Right
  42. Ditch Bitch
  43. Valentine Dialogue
  44. Eatin’ Critters
  45. Sugar Beat
  46. i bring my sins to geezuz
  47. nîcimos
  48. Thieves
  49. Boarding School
  50. The Residential School Bus
  51. Ships on the Reserve
  52. nitôtêm
  53. Bruises Are Part of Daddy’s Job
  54. Tribal Warfare
  55. Hoop Dancer
  56. stones
  57. Hamilton’s Graveyard
  58. Gifts for the Child
  59. Rainbow Babies
  60. Snake
  61. Hold Me Tight
  62. Picking Leftovers
  63. Diaper Boy
  64. Jahnnie
  65. Idylwyld Crow
  66. Sister
  67. Beneath the Eyelids
  68. Eclipse
  69. so sorry
  70. I’m So Sorry
  71. ten hail marys
  72. In Da Name of Da Fadder
  73. der poop
  74. my ledders
  75. Returning
  76. You’ve Got to Teach White Women Everything
  77. These Are the Body’s Gifts
  78. For Usine
  79. For Omeasoo
  80. For Patrick
  81. Landscape
  82. The Way to the Heart
  83. The Heat of My Grandmothers
  84. Roots and Wings
  85. The Eagle Squeeze
  86. Glossary
  87. Afterword — Comfortable in My Bones
  88. Acknowledgments
  89. About the Author