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• Title:The reason you walk / Wab Kinew.
  
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• Author/Creator:Kinew, Wab, 1981- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection.
  
• Published/Created:Toronto, Ontario : Penguin, 2017.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: YS K563 R43 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects: Indigenous Peoples--Manitoba--Winnipeg.
  Indigenous Peoples--Residential schools--Intergenerational impact.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Kinew, Wab, 1981-
  Kinew, Wab, 1981---Family.
  Kinew, Tobasonakwut.
  Broadcasters--Manitoba--Winnipeg.
  Father and child.
  
• Genre/Form:Biographies.
  
• Description:xiv, 273 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
  
• Summary:When his father was diagnosed with terminal cancer, Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant Indigenous man. His father, Tobasonakwut, was a beloved traditional chief and a respected elected leader who engaged directly with Ottawa. He was also a survivor of the residential school system. As Kinew revisits his own childhood, he learns more about his father's traumatic past. Kinew writes affectingly of his own struggles in his youth to find the right path, eventually giving up a self-destructive lifestyle to pursue music and martial arts. Invoking hope, healing, and forgiveness, The Reason You Walk is a poignant memoir of a towering but damaged father and his son as they embark on a journey to repair their family bond, a story that will inspire us to continue the wider conversation about the future of Indigneous peoples.
  
• Local note:First Nations author.
  
• Notes:Originally published: Toronto, Ontario : Viking, 2015.
  
• ISBN:9780143193555 (softcover)
  0143193554
  
• Contents:Foreword
  Prologue
  Part One Oshkaadizid (Youth)
  Part Two Kiizhewaadizid (Living a life of love, kindness, sharing, and respect)
  Part Three Giiwekwaadizid (The end of life)
  Epilogue.