{"product_id":"bear-bones-and-feathers","title":"Bear Bones and Feathers","description":"\u003cp\u003eLouise Bernice Halfe - Sky Dancer was raised on Saddle Lake Reserve and attended Blue Quills Residential School.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this new edition of her powerful debut, Plains Cree writer and National Poet Laureate Louise B. Halfe Sky Dancer reckons with personal history within cultural genocide.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEmploying Indigenous spirituality, black comedy, and the memories of her own childhood as healing arts, celebrated poet Louise B. Halfe - Sky Dancer finds an irrepressible source of strength and dignity in her people. Bear Bones and Feathers offers moving portraits of Halfe's grandmother (a medicine woman whose life straddled old and new worlds), her parents (both trapped in a cycle of jealousy and abuse), and the people whose pain she witnessed on the reserve and at residential school.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOriginally published by Coteau Books in 1994, Bear Bones and Feathers won the Milton Acorn People's Poet Award, and was a finalist for the Spirit of Saskatchewan Award, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Gerald Lampert Award.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49921937703140,"sku":"euy1789929781784","price":9.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0818\/6036\/2468\/files\/bear-bones-and-feathers_1.jpg?v=1789929791","url":"https:\/\/suspenderclipn.shop\/products\/bear-bones-and-feathers","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}