ka-pi-isi-kiskisiyan / The Way I Remember It (Paperback)

A residential school survivor finds his way back to his language and culture through his family's traditional stories. When reflecting on forces that have shaped his life, Solomon Ratt says his education was interrupted by his schooling. Torn from his family at the age of six, Ratt was placed into the residential school system-a harsh, institutional world, operated in a language he could not yet understand, far from the love and comfort of home and family. In ka-pi-isi-kiskisiyan / / The Way I Remember It , Ratt reflects on these memories and the life-long challenges he endured through his telling of acimisowin -autobiographical stories-and also traditional tales. Written over the course of several decades, Ratt describes his life before, during, and after residential school. In many ways, these stories reflect the experience of thousands of other Indigenous children across Canada, but Ratt's stories also stand apart in a significant way: he managed to retain his mother language of Cree by returning home to his parents each summer despite the destruction wrought by colonialism. Ratt then shifts from the acimisowina (personal, autobiographical stories) to acathohkiwina , (sacred stories) the more formal and commonly recognized style of traditional Cree literature, to illustrate how, in a world uninterrupted by colonialism and its agenda of genocide, these traditional stories would have formed the winter curriculum of a Cree child's education. Presented in Cree Th-dialect Standard Roman Orthography, syllabics, and English, Ratt's reminiscences of residential school escapades almost always end with a close call and a smile. Even when his memories are dark, Ratt's particularly Cree sense of humour shines, making ka-pi-isi-kiskisiyan / / The Way I Remember It an important and unique memoir that emphasizes and celebrates Solomon Ratt's perseverance and life after residential school.

General

Imprint:	University of Regina Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	2023
Authors:	Solomon Ratt
Dimensions:	228 x 6 x 152mm (L x W x H)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-0-88977-914-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Language teaching & learning material & coursework > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-88977-914-7
Barcode:	9780889779143

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