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Subjects:

Kinew, Wab, 1981-.
Kinew, Wab, 1981 -- -Family.
Kinew, Tobasonakwut.
Broadcasters -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Biography.
Ojibwa Indians -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Biography.

Summary:

When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who'd raised him. Born to an Anishinaabe father and a non-native mother, he has a foot in both cultures. He is a Sundancer, an academic, a former rapper, a hereditary chief, and an urban activist. Kinew writes affectingly of his own struggles in his twenties to find the right path, eventually giving up a self-destructive lifestyle to passionately pursue music and martial arts. From his unique vantage point, he offers an inside view of what it means to be an educated aboriginal living in a country that is just beginning to wake up to its aboriginal history and living presence.

Local notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alec Harris & Carollina Song Fund.

Contributor:

Alec Harris & Carollina Song Fund.

ISBN:

0670069345
9780670069347

OCLC:

915043966

Publisher Number:

99965668822

Web link:

The Alec Harris & Carollina Song Fund Home Page