One Native Life

By Richard Wagamese

Book Overview

In 2005, award-winning writer Richard Wagamese moved with his partner to a cabin outside Kamloops, B.C. In the crisp mountain air Wagamese felt a peace he'd seldom known before. Abused and abandoned as a kid, he'd grown up feeling there was nowhere he belonged. For years, only alcohol and moves from town to town seemed to ease the pain. In One Native Life, Wagamese looks back down the road he has travelled in reclaiming his identity and talks about the things he has learned as a human being, a man and an Ojibway in his fifty-two years. Whether he's writing about playing baseball, running away with the circus, attending a sacred bundle ceremony or meeting Pierre Trudeau, he tells these stories in a healing spirit. Through them, Wagamese celebrates the learning journey his life has been. Free of rhetoric and anger despite the horrors he has faced, Wagamese's prose resonates with a peace that has come from acceptance. Acceptance is an Aboriginal principle, and he has come to see that we are all neighbours here. One Native Life is his tribute to the people, the places and the events that have allowed him to stand in the sunshine and celebrate being alive.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1553653122
• ISBN13: 9781553653127
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

This Author is an American Treasure

Wonderful book, the kind you promise yourself you'll read twice, and you do! Should be required reading for any person interested in Native American culture. My whole family has read it, and I'm getting more to send to friends.