{"product_id":"injichaag-rene-meshake-9780887558481","title":"Injichaag: My Soul in Story: Anishinaabe Poetics in Art and Words","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book shares the life story of Anishinaabe artist Rene Meshake in stories, poetry, and Anishinaabemowin \"word bundles\" that serve as a dictionary of Ojibwe poetics. Meshake was born in the railway town of Nakina in northwestern Ontario in 1948, and spent his early years living off-reserve with his grandmother in a matriarchal land-based community he calls Pagwashing. He was raised through his grandmother's \"bush university,\" periodically attending Indian day school, but at the age of ten Rene was scooped into the Indian residential school system, where he suffered sexual abuse as well as the loss of language and connection to family and community. This residential school experience was lifechanging, as it suffocated his artistic expression and resulted in decades of struggle and healing. Now in his twenty-eighth year of sobriety, Rene is a successful multidisciplinary artist, musician and writer. Meshake's artistic vision and poetic lens provide a unique telling of a story of colonization and recovery.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe material is organized thematically around a series of Meshake's paintings. It is framed by Kim Anderson, Rene's Odaanisan (adopted daughter), a scholar of oral history who has worked with Meshake for two decades. Full of teachings that give a glimpse of traditional Anishinaabek lifeways and worldviews, \u003cem\u003e Injichaag: My Soul in Story\u003c\/em\u003e is \"more than a memoir.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rene Meshake\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0887558488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780887558481\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Manitoba Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.69h x 7.21w x 0.84d","brand":"Rene Meshake","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947452596479,"sku":"9780887558481","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_8a50ece7-b18d-4153-b4f2-1c7e8239725e.jpg?v=1681518814","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/injichaag-rene-meshake-9780887558481","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}