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Sto caricando le informazioni... Halfbreed (1973)di Maria Campbell
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Very insightful on the psychological effects of being considered second class people. A very different legacy came down in part of my Missouri family. From the 1850s, leaving her culture behind, the sliver of Native DNA that came down was seen as pride. Little left by the time it reached me, only got 3% DNA according to National Geographic’s Genographic Project. So the bigotry Ms Campbell describes is distressing. We must stand tall and shake off all preconceptions. Maria Campbell's "Halfbreed" tells her life story growing up as a Métis woman in northern Saskatchewan and the legacy of colonialism on her own psyche, that of her family and her community at large. The narrative starts with her childhood and goes up to 1966, as Native organizations work to address the legacy of colonialism in Canada. This work provides a fascinating memoir of Campbell's life and family, and how a Métis woman percieved events around her in the 40s-60s. This 1973 work is a fantastic foundational piece of Indigenous - and specifically, Métis - literature. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in Métis social history and life. Maria Campbell is a Métis activist, author, playwright, and more. You can read about many of her accomplishments and important works on her Goodreads page. Knowing about her accomplishments makes this memoir an interesting read--today's reader knows what the author herself did not yet know when this was first published in 1973. In this book she describes her childhood as the oldest child in her family. Poor but happy, their lives went downhill when her father lost his job and then her mother passed away. She tried to keep the family together as her dad worked, or drank, and she tried to attend school while doing the cooking and cleaning and childminding It didn't work. Marrying young as another way to keep them together, it also doesn't work. She has several children, moves around, is abandoned by her husband, discovers alcohol and drugs, holds various illegal jobs, and finally makes it back to see her grandmother and father and most of her siblings. She can't believe her people's situation seems even worse. Campbell illustrates her struggles and readily admits to her failures, and you can see what she has learned, and how she matures. He frustration, shame, fear, and anger are palpable. She also begins work that will lead to her later successes. She describes the supports for Native women that she thinks should exist. She herself later succeeded in establishing such supports. I found the writing a little awkward, but this book is not about the writing. It's about a community that was (and still is) poorly treated and struggling, and about how one woman fought her way out of her early struggles to begin the career she had dreamed of. Though she mentions possibly writing another volume, I am not sure she has (yet?). Because it is time! nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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A new, fully restored edition of the essential Canadian classic. An unflinchingly honest memoir of her experience as a Métis woman in Canada, Maria Campbell's Halfbreed depicts the realities that she endured and, above all, overcame. Maria was born in Northern Saskatchewan, her father the grandson of a Scottish businessman and Métis woman--a niece of Gabriel Dumont whose family fought alongside Riel and Dumont in the 1885 Rebellion; her mother the daughter of a Cree woman and French-American man. This extraordinary account, originally published in 1973, bravely explores the poverty, oppression, alcoholism, addiction, and tragedy Maria endured throughout her childhood and into her early adult life, underscored by living in the margins of a country pervaded by hatred, discrimination, and mistrust. Laced with spare moments of love and joy, this is a memoir of family ties and finding an identity in a heritage that is neither wholly Indigenous or Anglo; of strength and resilience; of indominatable spirit. This edition of Halfbreed includes a new introduction written by Indigenous (Métis) scholar Dr. Kim Anderson detailing the extraordinary work that Maria has been doing since its original publication 46 years ago, and an afterword by the author looking at what has changed, and also what has not, for Indigenous people in Canada today. Restored are the recently discovered missing pages from the original text of this groundbreaking and significant work. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I maybe made a mistake in listening to the audio. Maria herself read it, but she has a very monotone voice. I thought that I was still able to focus in the first half or so of the book, but I did miss things as the book continued, and I suspect I missed more earlier in the book than I originally thought. ( )