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Our home and vitally native land

Magnificent aboriginal anthology adds to our understanding of Manitoba

Reviewed by: Neil Besner
Posted: 03/31/2012

Manitowapow
Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water
Edited by Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair and Warren Cariou
Highwater Press, 416 pages, $35

Until the appearance of this beautiful volume, anthologies of Manitoba writing — and there are several excellent collections — have tended to represent aboriginal writers somewhat sporadically and selectively.

Manitowapow (the meanings and origins of the name are fully explained in the anthology’s excellent introduction) will fundamentally revise the ways in which the province’s literary, cultural and political history is read, by beginning to more fully restore and reconsider the fundamental significance of aboriginal writing to that history.

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