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Owóknage: The Story of Carry the Kettle Nakoda First Nation
The definitive story of the Nakoda people, in their own words
Born out of a meticulous, well-researched historical and current traditional land-use study led by Cega̔ K´iɳna Nakoda Oyáté (Carry the Kettle Nakoda First Nation), Owóknage is the first book to tell the definitive, comprehensive story of the Nakoda people (formerly known as the Assiniboine), in their own words. From pre-contact to current-day life, from thriving on the Great Plains to forced removal from their traditional, sacred lands in the Cypress Hills via a Canadian “Trail of Tears” starvation march to where they now currently reside south of Sintaluta, Saskatchewan, this is their story of resilience and resurgence.
Born out of a meticulous, well-researched historical and current traditional land-use study led by Cega̔ K´iɳna Nakoda Oyáté (Carry the Kettle Nakoda First Nation), Owóknage is the first book to tell the definitive, comprehensive story of the Nakoda people (formerly known as the Assiniboine), in their own words. From pre-contact to current-day life, from thriving on the Great Plains to forced removal from their traditional, sacred lands in the Cypress Hills via a Canadian “Trail of Tears” starvation march to where they now currently reside south of Sintaluta, Saskatchewan, this is their story of resilience and resurgence.
412 pages, Paperback
Published April 16, 2022
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September 18, 2022
I’m not sure Truth & Reconciliation is enough.
How did the book make me feel/think?
Some rich man came and raped the land |...| nobody caught him. (The Last Resort–The Eagles)
Eyes pried wide open.
Dept. of Indian Affairs + Indian Agencies; do we need to know more? Yes.
We came—our ancestors, bringing disease. Our ancestors, mine, yours (?), raped the land of its resources. The Indigenous peoples were unsuspecting, gracious hosts.
Our ancestors were not the best guests. Treaties were signed under the ruse of mutual progress. Our ancestors eradicated what our hosts needed for survival, food, and land. Then, our ancestors ostracised, forcing the Indigenous peoples onto reserves (concentration camps), starved them—and our ancestors took to where—'if the water doesn’t have insects in it, don’t drink it,’ poising the earth with progress. Our ancestors marginalized and criminalized their hosts.
A person I know says the Indigenous people have an advantage; I did nothing to them; they need to ‘get over it.’ His ancestors were responsible for a culture's ‘attempted’ destruction (genocide). A culture that respected what the earth was providing. His apathy, denial, and verbal cruelty make him (many of us) complicit in ignorance. We want everything. At what cost? Diseasing Mother Earth? Cancer?
A new development springs up, obliterating everything in its path. The very things wildlife needs to thrive. Our fish are covered in sores. If humans are getting cancer at alarming rates, think of the animals.
OwÓknage is a riveting account of the ways of life of proud nations of Indigenous peoples. The atrocities they faced by trusting settlers who were only interested in one thing: raping the earth of its resources, stripping away the way of life of Mother Earth’s Shepherds—all in the name of…
No wonder some people are anti-immigration—they know what their ancestors were capable of—and are terrified, it might be embedded in their DNA.
I want to be a better person.
WRITTEN: 17 September 2022
How did the book make me feel/think?
Some rich man came and raped the land |...| nobody caught him. (The Last Resort–The Eagles)
Eyes pried wide open.
Dept. of Indian Affairs + Indian Agencies; do we need to know more? Yes.
We came—our ancestors, bringing disease. Our ancestors, mine, yours (?), raped the land of its resources. The Indigenous peoples were unsuspecting, gracious hosts.
Our ancestors were not the best guests. Treaties were signed under the ruse of mutual progress. Our ancestors eradicated what our hosts needed for survival, food, and land. Then, our ancestors ostracised, forcing the Indigenous peoples onto reserves (concentration camps), starved them—and our ancestors took to where—'if the water doesn’t have insects in it, don’t drink it,’ poising the earth with progress. Our ancestors marginalized and criminalized their hosts.
A person I know says the Indigenous people have an advantage; I did nothing to them; they need to ‘get over it.’ His ancestors were responsible for a culture's ‘attempted’ destruction (genocide). A culture that respected what the earth was providing. His apathy, denial, and verbal cruelty make him (many of us) complicit in ignorance. We want everything. At what cost? Diseasing Mother Earth? Cancer?
A new development springs up, obliterating everything in its path. The very things wildlife needs to thrive. Our fish are covered in sores. If humans are getting cancer at alarming rates, think of the animals.
OwÓknage is a riveting account of the ways of life of proud nations of Indigenous peoples. The atrocities they faced by trusting settlers who were only interested in one thing: raping the earth of its resources, stripping away the way of life of Mother Earth’s Shepherds—all in the name of…
No wonder some people are anti-immigration—they know what their ancestors were capable of—and are terrified, it might be embedded in their DNA.
I want to be a better person.
WRITTEN: 17 September 2022
June 29, 2023
I was a bit confused by the usage of BP, which I had never come across before but apart from that this book was a necessary read. It is not often that an Indigenous people get to write their own history.
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