The reason you walk

Description:

When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who'd raised him. Born to an Anishinaabe father and a non-native mother, he has a foot in both cultures. He is a Sundancer, an academic, a former rapper, a hereditary chief, and an urban activist. Kinew writes affectingly of his own struggles in his twenties to find the right path, eventually giving up a self-destructive lifestyle to passionately pursue music and martial arts. From his unique vantage point, he offers an inside view of what it means to be an educated aboriginal living in a country that is just beginning to wake up to its aboriginal history and living presence.

subjects: Biographies,  Ojibwa (Indiens),  Père et enfant,  Musiciens autochtones,  Indigenous peoples,  Internats pour autochtones,  Families,  Indians of North America,  Family,  Ojibwa Indians,  Personnalités de la radio et de la télévision,  Residential schools,  Broadcasters,  Social conditions,  Famille,  Biography,  Indian musicians,  Indigenous peoples, canada,  Musicians, canada,  Indians of north america, biography

People: Wab Kinew (1981-),  Tobasonakwut Kinew

Places: Canada,  Manitoba,  Winnipeg