I Lost My Talk Literature and beloved Nokomis

and beloved Nokomis

Celebrated author Richard Wagamese artfully crafts these thrilling yet vulnerable stories of two young men trying to find their place in the world

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I Lost My Talk Literature and beloved NokomisI Lost My Talk is one of Rita Joe's most influential poems and tells this Mi'kmaw Elder's story of losing her Mikmaw language while at residential school in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. The vivid and colour illustrations are by Mi'kmaw artist Pauline Young and compliment the poem beautifully. This poem is directed at those who took Rita Joes talk away when she was a little girl replacing her language with their own and in asking to find her talk again