Owóknage
The Story of Carry The Kettle Nakoda First Nation
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Shortlisted, Indigenous Peoples' Publishing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards, 2023
Shortlisted, Nonfiction Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
Shortlisted, Publishing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
Shortlisted, Scholarly Writing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
"A powerful history that feels like a blueprint for a fuller, truer recounting of the past." --Canada's History Magazine
Born out of a meticulous, well-researched historical and current traditional land-use study led by Cega K´i?na Nakoda Oyáté (Carry the Kettle Nakoda First Nation), Owóknage is the first book to tell the definitive, comprehensive story of the Nakoda people (formerly known as the Assiniboine), in their own words. From pre-contact to current-day life, from thriving on the Great Plains to forced removal from their traditional, sacred lands in the Cypress Hills via a Canadian "Trail of Tears" starvation march to where they now currently reside south of Sintaluta, Saskatchewan, this is their story of resilience and resurgence.
About this Author
Cega K´i?na Nakoda Oyáté (Carry The Kettle Nakoda First Nation) is located south of Sintaluta, Saskatchewan, though the traditional home territory is the western end of the Cypress Hills.
Reviews
"Owóknage provides a nuanced, detailed account of the history and culture of Carry the Kettle Nakoda First Nation. Its scholarship is exemplary...It joins Daschuk's (2013) Clearing the Plains and Kulchinsky's (2019) No Surrender as books that should be required reading for Canadians in facilitating reconciliation between residents of the prairie." --Prairie History Magazine
"A fine example for those hoping to create a well-researched history of their own communities, one that gives equal weight to oral history and documentary evidence." --The Canadian Historical Review
"Né makóce né Nakóta téha ubi no Wóyabi né ta'ówowicaknagabi cá okná én Togáda giyá nená knuzábikta no Wóyábi ne eháhtiya cá Nína pinámaya! / These are the stories of the Nakóta people, they have retained them for generations. The future Nakóta people will retain them. This book provides a truthful Nakóta perspective." -- Michael Turcotte, Fort Peck Húdesana Nakóda (Red Bottom Nakóda)
"A monumental collaboration...that traces the 700-year odyssey of the Nakoda Nation." --James Daschuk, author of Clearing the Plains
"A beautiful expression of the history, migration, and pre- and post-reserve era of the Nakoda tribe! A must read!" --Chief Ira McArthur, Pheasant Rump Nakota First Nation
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