Ignatia Broker
Ignatia Broker | |
---|---|
Born | February 14, 1919 White Earth Indian Reservation in northwestern Minnesota |
Died | June 23, 1987 | (aged 68)
Occupation | Novelist |
Ignatia Broker (1919–1987) was an
Early and personal life
Broker was born on February 14, 1919, on
Work
Night Flying Woman, Broker's only novel, was published in 1983. In the preface, Broker writes that her motivation for the novel came partly from her own children, who wished to know more about the past experiences of the Ojibwe people. The theme of keeping the past alive through passing down stories in the oral tradition is important in the book. After opening the book with some details of Broker's own life, the story mostly focuses on the experiences of Broker's great-great-grandmother, Ni-bo-wi-se-gwa, or Oona, who lived from the 1860s to the 1940s. During that time, cultural contact with Euro-American society created various devastating changes, including removal from her tribe's traditional lands to the White Earth Indian Reservation, and the introduction of guns, alcohol, steel, missionaries, and smallpox, among many other alterations to traditional life. The book was considered notable, since the story was related by an Ojibwe storyteller and not a white historian.[3]
Death
Broker died of lung cancer on June 23, 1987.[4]
Awards
- 1984 Wonder Woman Award[5]
References
- ISBN 9781609173531.
- ISBN 9780873516860.
- JSTOR 1184664.
- ^ O’Gara, Katie; Curtright, Lauren (24 August 2004). "Biography of Ignatia Broker" (PDF). conservancy.umn.edu. University of Minnesota. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
Further reading
- "The Art of Remembering, an Interview with Ignatia Broker". Emphasis Magazine. 1984.
- Ignatia Broker papers, 1906-1987. St. Paul, Minnesota: OCLC 122509469.
- Danforth, Pauline Brunette (2002). Night Flying Woman : sacred stories of the Ojibway (dissertation). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota. OCLC 62690635.
- Hirschfelder, Arlene, ed. (1995). "Ignatia Broker". Native heritage: personal accounts by American Indians, 1790 to the present. New York, New York: Macmillan. pp. 161, 188. OCLC 31434236.