kiyam

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Publication Year:
2012

ISBN-13: 9781926836706

Through poems that move between the two languages, McIlwraith explores the beauty of the intersection between<EM> nêhiyawêwin</EM>, the Plains Cree language, and English, <EM>âkayâsîmowin</EM>. Written to honour her father’s facility in nêhiyawêwin and her mother’s beauty and generosity as an inheritor of Cree, Ojibwe, Scottish, and English, <EM>kiyâm </EM>articulates a powerful yearning for family, history, peace, and love.