- Glecia Bear
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Glecia Bear or Nêhiyaw (born April 29, 1912 in Green Lake, Saskatchewan, died September 1998, Flying Dust First Nation[1]) was a Saskatchewan-born[2] Cree Elder,[3] traditional tale teller and a children’s writer with Freda Ahenakew from Canada.[4][5]
She was the first female chief of the Flying Dust First Nation[1]
Bibliography
- Kthkominawak otbcimowiniwbwa/Our grandmothers' lives, as told in their own words (1992)[6]
- Wanisinwak iskwesisak : awasisasinahikanis = Two little girls lost in the bush: a Cree story for children (1991).[2]
References
- ^ a b "Compassion/manâcihitowin" (in English/Cree). Dene/Cree ElderSpeak. Meadow Lake Tribal Council. http://www.horizonzero.ca/elderspeak/stories/compassion.html. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
- ^ a b Kerman, Kay (September 1992). "TWO LITTLE GIRLS LOST IN THE BUSH: A CREE STORY FOR CHILDREN/WANISINWAK ISKWESISAK: AWASISASINAHIKANIS (review)". A Reviewing Journal of Canadian Materials for Young People (University of Manitoba) 20 (4). http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/cmarchive/vol20no4/twolostgirls.html. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
- ^ Carter, Sarah (2005). Unsettled pasts: reconceiving the west through women's history. University of Calgary Press. p. 154. ISBN 9781552381779. http://books.google.com/books?id=CLVawm9_f6QC&pg=PA154&dq=%22glecia+bear%22&hl=en&ei=boQTTcLDHYyusAOX_OiPCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=%22glecia%20bear%22&f=false. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
- ^ Emma Minde; Freda Ahenakew, H. Christoph Wolfart (1997). Their example showed me the way. University of Alberta. pp. xi ff.. ISBN 9780888642912. http://books.google.com/books?id=QukMCcbY1FsC&pg=PR11&dq=%22glecia+bear%22&hl=en&ei=U4UTTYPUDoj6sAOa4p23Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD8Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22glecia%20bear%22&f=false. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
- ^ Susan-Ann Cooper; Aïda Hudson (2003). Windows and words: a look at Canadian children's literature in English. University of Ottawa Press. p. 54. ISBN 9780776605562. http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=vKtlRQwcD7MC&oi=fnd&pg=PA49&dq=%22glecia+bear%22&ots=abAsToSr_3&sig=XR3bdBMHKuessPjFnQpDIZF6We0#v=onepage&q=%22glecia%20bear%22&f=false. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
- ^ Whidden, Lynn (Spring 1993). "Reviewed work(s): Our Grandmothers' Lives as Told in Their Own Words by Freda Ahenakew; H. C. Wolfart". American Indian Quarterly (University of Nebraska Press) 17 (2): 284–286. JSTOR 1185550.
External links
Categories:- 1912 births
- 1998 deaths
- Cree people
- First Nations writers
- First Nations stubs
- Canadian writer stubs
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