Research Catalog

Title

Mamaskatch : a Cree coming of age / Darrel J. McLeod.

Author

McLeod, Darrel J.,

Publication

• Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2019.
• ©2018

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Holdings

Details

Description

228 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"As a small boy in remote Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod is immersed in his Cree family's history, passed down in the stories of his mother, Bertha. But after a series of tragic losses, Bertha turns wild and unstable, and their home life becomes chaotic. Meanwhile, he begins to question and grapple with his sexual identity--a reckoning complicated by the repercussions of his abuse and his sibling's own gender transition. Thrillingly written in a series of fractured vignettes, and unflinchingly honest, Mamaskatch--"It's a wonder!" in Cree--is a heartbreaking account of how traumas are passed down from one generation to the next, and an uplifting story of one individual who broke the cycle in pursuit of a fulfilling and adventurous life"--

Subject

• Canada
• Cree Indians > Biography
• Cree Indians
• Families
• Gay men
• Indigenous men > Canada > Biography
• Indigenous men
• McLeod, Darrel J
• McLeod, Darrel J. > Family

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies.
• Biographies.

Note

• Originally published in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre, 2018.

ISBN

• 9781571313874
• 1571313877

LCCN

2019003378

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries