Stolen life : the journey of a Cree woman

Wiebe, Rudy 1934- (author.). Johnson, Yvonne 1961- (author.).

Summary: "The award-winning Stolen Life is a remarkable collaborative work between a distinguished novelist and a Cree woman who broke a lifetime of silence to share her story. Imprisoned for murder at the age of twenty-seven, Yvonne Johnson sought out Rudy Wiebe, the chronicler of her ancestor Big Bear, as a means of coming to terms with her self, her past and the crime that defines her future. The ensuing story, which is told with Wiebe's compassion and infused with Johnson's intelligence and spirituality defies the grisly events of her life."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 0676971962
ISBN: 9780676971965
Physical Description: xii, 444 pages ; 21 cm
regular print
print
Edition: First Vintage Canada edition.
Publisher: Toronto : Vintage Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, 1999.
Copyright: ©1998.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Blood Runs Thick and Long and For Ever -- 2. My Eyes Became My Voice -- 3. Killing in the Family -- 4. Only Good Indian -- 5. That's Right, Drive Me to Winter -- 6. Growing Up in a Beer Bottle -- 7. Wetaskiwin: The Place Where Peace Is Made -- 8. Down into Disaster -- 9. Three Days in September 1989 -- 10. If I Gave You a Gun, Would You Shoot Me? -- 11. You Have Nothing to Hope, and Nothing to Fear -- 12. Power of My Name: Why I Must Remember This -- 13. If I Don't Beat You Up, You'll Sleep with Me? -- 14. Spirit Keepers -- 15. What You Did, and Where You Did It -- 16. Since the Time When the Earth Was First Born -- Epilogue: Where People Are.

Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:

Donation (copy 2 only) ; 2006/10