Main entry:

Baxter, Eli, author.

Title & Author:

Aki-wayn-zih = A person as worthy as the Earth / Eli Baxter ; edited by Matthew Ryan Smith.

Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

Description:

xii, 160 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.

Series:

McGill-Queen's Indigenous and northern studies ; 102

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue -- Part One. Anishinaabay Kih-kayn-daa-soh-win (Anishinaabay Knowledge) -- Part Two. Ish-poh-kin-nih-goh-yung (Before contact) -- Part Three. Residential school -- Epilogue.
Issued also in electronic formats.
Text in English. Includes some text in Anishinaabay with English translation.

Summary:

"Members of Eli Baxter's generation are the last of the hunting and gathering societies living on Turtle Island. They are also among the last fluent speakers of the Anishinaabay language known as Anishinaabaymowin. Aki-wayn-zih is a story about the land and its spiritual relationship with the Anishinaabayg, from the beginning of their life on Miss-koh-tay-sih Minis (Turtle Island) to the present day. Baxter writes about Anishinaabay life before European contact, his childhood memories of trapping, hunting, and fishing with his family on traditional lands in Treaty 9 territory, and his personal experience surviving the residential school system. Examining how Anishinaabay Kih-kayn-daa-soh-win (knowledge) is an elemental concept embedded in the Anishinaabay language, Aki-wayn-zih explores history, science, math, education, philosophy, law, and spiritual teachings, outlining the cultural significance of language to Anishinaabay identity. Recounting traditional Ojibway legends in their original language, fables in which moral virtues double as survival techniques, and detailed guidelines for expertly trapping or ensnaring animals, Baxter reveals how the residential school system shaped him as an individual, transformed his family, and forever disrupted his reserve community and those like it. Through spiritual teachings, historical accounts, and autobiographical anecdotes, Aki-wayn-zih offers a new form of storytelling from the Anishinaabay point of view."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780228008071 (cloth)
0228008077 (cloth)
(pdf)
9780228009221
(epub)
9780228009238

Subject:

Baxter, Eli.
Ojibwa Indians Ontario, Northern Biography.
Indigenous peoples Ontario, Northern Social life and customs.
Indigenous peoples Ontario, Northern History.
Indigenous peoples Ontario, Northern Social conditions.
Indigenous peoples Ontario, Northern Biography.
Off-reservation boarding schools Ontario, Northern.
Ojibwa Indians Ontario, Northern Social life and customs.
Ojibwa Indians Ontario, Northern History.
Indigenous peoples Ontario, Northern Residential schools.
Autochtones Ontario (Nord) Mœurs et coutumes.
Autochtones Ontario (Nord) Histoire.
Autochtones Ontario (Nord) Conditions sociales.
Autochtones Ontario (Nord) Biographies.
Internats pour Autochtones Canada Histoire.
Ojibwés Ontario (Nord) Moeurs et coutumes.
Ojibwés Ontario (Nord) Biographies.
Ojibwés ONtario (Nord) Histoire.
Ojibwa Indians Social life and customs
Ojibwa Indians
Off-reservation boarding schools
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples Social conditions
Indigenous peoples Social life and customs
Ojibwa Identity.
Ojibwa Culture.
Ojibwa Languages.
Ojibwa Social life and customs.
Ojibwa Residential schools.
Northern Ontario

Form/genre:

Autobiography
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History

Added entries:

Smith, Matthew Ryan, 1983- editor.
McGill-Queen's indigenous and northern series ; 102.

Person as worthy as the Earth

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315774
Call No.: 315774
Copy: 1
Status: Available