The reason you walk
About this book
When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who'd raised him. Born to an Anishinaabe father and a non-native mother, he has a foot in both cultures. He is a Sundancer, an academic, a former rapper, a hereditary chief, and an urban activist. Kinew writes affectingly of his own struggles in his twenties to find the right path, eventually giving up a self-destructive lifestyle to passionately pursue music and martial arts. From his unique vantage point, he offers an inside view of what it means to be an educated aboriginal living in a country that is just beginning to wake up to its aboriginal history and living presence.
Subjects
- biographies
- biography
- broadcasters
- families
- famille
- family
- indian musicians
- indians of north america
- indians of north america, biography
- indigenous peoples
- indigenous peoples, canada
- internats pour autochtones
- musicians, canada
- musiciens autochtones
- ojibwa indians
- ojibwa (indiens)
- père et enfant
- personnalités de la radio et de la télévision
- residential schools
- social conditions