"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." -- Provided by the Publisher.
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ISBN:9780670069347 (hc.)
Physical Description:273 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm print
Part One: Oshkaadizid Youth -- Part Two: Kiizhewaadizid Living a Life of Love, Kindness, Sharing, and Respect -- Part Three: Giiwekwaadiziz The End of Life
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