Message sticks = Tshissinuatshitakana : poems / Joséphine Bacon ; translated from French by Phyllis Aronoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bacon, Joséphine, 1947- author.

Contributor:

Aronoff, Phyllis, 1945- translator.

Language:

Algonquian (Other)

English

French

Subjects (All):

Bacon, Joséphine, 1947---Translations into English.

Bacon, Joséphine.

French-Canadian poetry--Indian authors--Translations into English.

French-Canadian poetry.

Montagnais Indians--Québec (Province)--Poetry.

Montagnais Indians.

Indian poetry--Québec (Province).

Indian poetry.

French-Canadian poetry--Indian authors.

Québec.

Genre:

Poetry.

Translations.

Physical Description:

133 pages ; 19 cm

Other Title:

Tshissinuatshitakana

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Tsar Publications, [2013]

Language Note:

Poems in English and Montagnais.

Summary:

"This bilingual work (English and Innu-aimun) is an invitation to dialogue. Message sticks are the signs that allow the nomadic Innu to orient themselves inland and find their way. The poetry brings the language of the nutshimit (the back country) to life again, recalling the sound of the drum. Simple and beautiful, Joséphine Bacon's poetry is an homage to the land, the ancestors, and the Innu-aimun language. Charting unwritten history, it provides a vision into the intensity of the elders' words."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

The other North/Nanim

The masters/Utshimauat

Famine/Niunium

Marrow/Uinn

Sea/Uinipeku

Medicine/Nutshimiu-natukana.

Notes:

Poems.

Translation of: Bâtons à message.

Contains:

Container of: Bacon, Joséphine, 1947- Bâtons à message. English

Container of: Bacon, Joséphine, 1947- Bâtons à message. Algonquin

ISBN:

9781927494097

1927494095

OCLC:

830078443