Bear Bones & Feathers (Wood Mountain series)

In this powerful book of poetry, First Nations Cree writer Louise Bernice Halfe sets out to heal the past.Employing Native spiritualism, black comedy and the memories of her own childhood as healing arts, she finds an irrepressible source of strength and dignity in her people. Bear Bones and Feathers is rooted in Louise Bernice Halfe's own life. She offers moving portraits of her 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.Louise Bernice Halfe is the author of 'Bear Bones & Feathers (Wood Mountain series)', published 1994 under ISBN 9781550500554 and ISBN 1550500554.