Burland Murphy – lisa·èÂíÐã Publishing and Vagrant Press lisa·èÂíÐã Publishing is the largest English-language publisher east of Toronto Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:32:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 153484567 For the Children /store/for-the-children.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=for-the-children Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:07:35 +0000 /store/for-the-children.html/for-the-children Born in 1932, in Whycocomagh, RITA JOE lived a hardscrabble existence, from foster home to foster home, experiences that helped her decide to admit herself to Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, a place most Mi'kmaq people had come to dread. It was a rare example of the child choosing Shubie, "to better myself," to get an education. That same determination compelled her to write about her personal combination of traditional Mi'kmaw spiritualism and Catholic faith, carrying forward her 'gentle war'. Her last poem, unfinished, was found in her typewriter when she died in March 2007.

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