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Kâ-pî-isi-kiskisiyân = The way I remember / Solomon Ratt ; edited with an introduction by Arden Ogg.

by Ratt, Solomon.

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University of Regina Press, 2023.

971.2400497 R237k

Ratt, Solomon -- Childhood and youth.

Cree language -- Dialects -- Texts.

Cree language -- Texts.

First Nations -- Saskatchewan -- Biography.

First Nations -- Saskatchewan -- Residential schools.

First Nations -- Education -- Saskatchewan.

First Nations -- Saskatchewan -- Social life and customs.

Our own words ; 2.

9780889779150 (hc)

9780889779143 (pbk)

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xxiv, 340 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Syllabics in title unable to be transcribed.

Text in Cree syllabics and romanized Cree (th-dialect), and in English translation.

"A residential school survivor finds his way back to his language and culture through his family's traditional stories. When reflecting on forces that have shaped his life, Solomon Ratt says his education was interrupted by his schooling. Torn from his family at the age of six, Ratt was placed into the residential school system -- far from the love and comfort of home and family. In The Way I Remember, Ratt reflects on these memories and the life-long challenges he endured through his telling of autobiographical stories and traditional tales. In many ways, these stories reflect the experience of thousands of other Indigenous children across Canada, but Ratt's stories also stand apart in a significant way: despite the destruction wrought by colonialism, he managed to retain his mother language of Cree by returning home to his parents each summer. Ratt then shifts from the cimisowina (personal, autobiographical stories) to cathhkwina (sacred stories), the more formal and commonly recognized style of traditional Cree literature, to illustrate how, in a world uninterrupted by colonialism and its agenda of genocide, these traditional stories would have formed the winter curriculum of a Cree child's education. Presented in Cree Th-dialect Standard Roman Orthography, syllabics, and English, Ratt's reminiscences of residential school escapades almost always end with a close call and a smile. Even when his memories are dark, Ratt's particularly Cree sense of humour shines, making kâ-pî-isi-kiskisiyân /The Way I Remember an important and unique memoir that emphasizes and celebrates Solomon Ratt's perseverance and life after residential school."--Publisher.

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Ogg, Arden C. (Arden Catherine), 1960-

Ratt, Solomon. Kâ-pî-isi-kiskisiyân. English.

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