Author: Ron Geyshick with Judith Doyle. Published by Impulse Editions, Toronto, ON., 2000, 1st Edition. ULTRA RARE: FLAT SIGNED and dated, with only a general "Best Wishes" dedication by the Author himself, Ron Geyshick. Printed in Canada. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with slight age-yellowing on the lovely fold-out-style covers. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 6 x 9 inch, 174 pages. A highly sturdy, clean and displayable book!
TE BWE WIN, TRUTH, Stories by an Ojibway Healer, is a collection of stories "exploring the traditional spiritual world of the Ojibway", the result of a collaborative effort by Ron Geyshick, a healer and guide from the Lac La Croix reserve, and writer and filmmaker Judith Doyle.
Te Bwe Win was a compilation of Geyshick’s personal stories and those told to him by relatives and Elders from his community of Lac La Croix, an Ojibway First Nation which sits about 200 kilometres west of Thunder Bay, along the Canada-U.S. border. Quetico Provincial Park sits to the north of the community and Superior National Forest in Minnesota to its south.
Geyshick never attended Indian residential school. His parents hid him out on the trap line. His father was the community’s traditional teacher and healer who transferred the role to his son. “(Geyshick) had written down some of these stories as a way to remember his teachings,” said Doyle, in an interview. “He gave it a lot of very careful thought and decided it was important that these stories be set down so that young people in the community, in the future, would have these stories.”
Geyshick, who died in 1996, set to work writing drafts of his stories by hand on Hilroy notebooks he procured from the school from about 1985 to 1988. Judith Doyle helped smooth the stories out for publishing.
1st Edition & Signed by Author
ISBN: 9780920197851
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