Poems of Rita Joe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joe, Rita, 1932-2007.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Micmac

Subjects (All):

Micmac Indians--Poetry.

Micmac Indians.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

64 unnumbered pages ; 19 x 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Halifax, N.S. : Abanaki Press, 1978.

Summary:

Rita Joe was born in Whycocomagh, Nova Scotia in 1931. She is a status Indian of the Micmac tribe. A foster child herself who had been shunted from home to home and from one reservation to another, she has a deep and abiding love for children. With eight of her own, she has nonetheless adopted two more and takes care of two grandchildren. She says that she writes always with children in mind. For them she writes so that others may come to understand the right of her people to education and dignity.

Notes:

Some poems also in Micmac.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

ISBN:

0920582001

9780920582008

OCLC:

4569738