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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 the age of ten Rene was scooped into the Indian
residential school system, where he suffered sexual abuse as well
as the loss of language and connectionto family and community. This
residential school experience was lifechanging, as it suffocated
his artistic expression and resulted in decades of struggle and
healing. Now in his twenty-eighth year of sobriety, Rene is a
successful multidisciplinary artist, musician and writer. Meshake's
artistic vision and poetic lens provide a unique telling of a story
of colonization and recovery. The material is organized
thematically around a series of Meshake's paintings. It is framed
by Kim Anderson, Rene's Odaanisan (adopted daughter), a scholar of
oral history who has worked with Meshake for two decades. Full of
teachings that give a glimpse of traditional Anishinaabek lifeways
and worldviews, Injichaag: My Soul in Story is "more than a
memoir."
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 the age of ten Rene was scooped into the Indian
residential school system, where he suffered sexual abuse as well
as the loss of language and connection to family and community.
This residential school experience was life changing, as it
suffocated his artistic expression and resulted in decades of
struggle and healing. Now in his twenty-eighth year of sobriety,
Rene is a successful multidisciplinary artist, musician and writer.
Meshake's artistic vision and poetic lens provide a unique telling
of a story of colonization and recovery.The material is organized
thematically around a series of Meshake's paintings. It is framed
by Kim Anderson, Rene's Odaanisan (adopted daughter), a scholar of
oral history who has worked with Meshake for two decades. Full of
teachings that give a glimpse of traditional Anishinaabek lifeways
and worldviews, Injichaag: My Soul in Story is 'more than a
memoir.'
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