Glecia Bear
Nêhiyaw
Cree leader
Personal details
BornApril 29, 1912
Green Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada
DiedSeptember 1998 (aged 85–86)
Flying Dust First Nation, Canada

Glecia Bear or Nêhiyaw (April 29, 1912 in Green Lake, Saskatchewan – September 1998, Flying Dust First Nation[1]) was a Saskatchewan-born[2] Cree elder and a traditional tale teller.[3] Her stories were recorded and translated by Freda Ahenakew.

She was the first female chief of the Flying Dust First Nation.[1]

Works

In Kthkominawak otbcimowiniwbwa, Glecia Bear tells her life story as a Cree woman.[4][5] In Wanisinwak iskwesisak : awasisasinahikanis, Glecia Bear recalls being lost in the forest with her little sister when they were eleven and eight years old.[6]

Bibliography

  • Wanisinwak iskwesisak : awasisasinahikanis [Two little girls lost in the bush: a Cree story for children]. 1991.[2]
  • Kthkominawak otbcimowiniwbwa [Our grandmothers' lives, as told in their own words]. 1992.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Compassion/manâcihitowin". Dene/Cree ElderSpeak (in English and Cree). Meadow Lake Tribal Council. Archived from the original on 13 October 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  2. 1 2 Kerman, Kay (September 1992). "TWO LITTLE GIRLS LOST IN THE BUSH: A CREE STORY FOR CHILDREN/WANISINWAK ISKWESISAK: AWASISASINAHIKANIS (review)". CM: A Reviewing Journal of Canadian Materials for Young People. University of Manitoba. 20 (4). Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  3. ↑ Carter, Sarah (2005). Unsettled pasts: reconceiving the west through women's history. University of Calgary Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-55238-177-9. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  4. ↑ Emma Minde; Freda Ahenakew; H. Christoph Wolfart (1997). Their example showed me the way. University of Alberta. pp. xi ff. ISBN 978-0-88864-291-2. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  5. ↑ Ahenakew, Freda; Wolfart, H.C., eds. (1998). Kôhkominawak Otâcimowiniwâwa / Our Grandmothers' Lives As Told in Their Own Words: Told By Glecia Bear, Irene Calliou, Janet Feitz, Minnie Fraser, Alpha Lafond, Rosa Longneck, Mary Wells. Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina. ISBN 9780889771185.
  6. ↑ Susan-Ann Cooper; Aïda Hudson (2003). Windows and words: a look at Canadian children's literature in English. University of Ottawa Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-7766-0556-2. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  7. ↑ Whidden, Lynn (Spring 1993). "Reviewed work(s): Our Grandmothers' Lives as Told in Their Own Words by Freda Ahenakew; H. C. Wolfart". American Indian Quarterly. University of Nebraska Press. 17 (2): 284–286. doi:10.2307/1185550. JSTOR 1185550.
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