Permanent Astonishment A Memoir (PB) Ouendat Each month begins with the

Each month begins with the name of the month in an Aboriginal language

Written by Joy Harjo

former Canada Research Chair

Developed for elementary level students

Downtown Eastside Power of Women Group

Permanent Astonishment A Memoir (PB) Ouendat Each month begins with theCapricious, big hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canadas most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performersTomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub Arctic, the eleventh of twelve children in a nomadic, caribou hunting Cree family. Growing up in a land of ten thousand lakes and islands, Tomson relished being pulled by dogsled beneath a night sky alive with stars, sucking the juices from roasted muskrat tails, and singing