Mitoni Niya Nêhiyaw / Cree Is Who I Truly Am by Sarah Whitecalf (As told by); H. C. Wolfart (Edited and Translated by); Freda Ahenakew (Edited and Translated by); Ted Whitecalf (Preface by)Strong women dominate these reminiscences: the grandmother taught the girl whose mother refused to let her go to school, and the life-changing events they witnessed range from the ravages of the influenza epidemic of 1918-20 and murder committed in a jealous rage to the abduction of a young woman by underground spirits who on her release grant her healing powers. A highly personal document, these memoirs are altogether exceptional in recounting the thoughts and feelings of a Cree woman as she copes with the challenges of reserve life but also, in a key chapter, with her loneliness while tending a relative's children in a place far away from home - and, apparently just as debilitating, away from the company of other women. [From Publisher]