This book shares the life story of Anishinaabe artist Rene Meshake in stories, poetry, and Anishinaabemowin word bundles that serve as a dictionary of Ojibwe poetics.
Meshake was born in the railway town of Nakina in northwestern Ontario in 1948, and spent his early years living off-reserve with his grandmother in a matriarchal land-based community he calls Pagwashing.
He was raised through his grandmother's bush university, periodically attending Indian day school, but at t.