George Kenny is an Anishinaabe poet and playwright who learned
traditional ways from his parents before being sent to residential
school in 1958. When Kenny published his first book, 1982's Indians
Don't Cry, he joined the ranks of Indigenous writers such as Maria
Campbell, Basil Johnston, and Rita Joe whose work melded art and
political action. Hailed as a landmark in the history of Indigenous
literature in Canada, this new edition is expected to inspire a new
generation of Anishinaabe writers with poems and stories that
depict the challenges of Indigenous people confronting and finding
ways to live within urban settler society. Indians Don't Cry:
Gaawin Mawisiiwag Anishinaabeg is the second book in the First
Voices, First Texts series, which publishes lost or
underappreciated texts by Indigenous artists. This new bi-lingual
edition includes a translation of Kenny's poems and stories into
Anishinaabemowin by Pat Ningewance and an afterword by literary
scholar Renate Eigenbrod.
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