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From: calling down the sky

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jukebox – guy hill: august 4, 2012 – guy hill: the returning of souls – memorials – things I know about my mother as an adult – when I think of mama in residential school – a gift of memories – naming ceremony – mama’s name

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Rosanna Deerchild

Rosanna Deerchild is an award-winning Cree author and broadcaster. Her family is from the O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation located near South Indian Lake, Manitoba, but she grew up in Thompson, Manitoba. She has worked for a variety of Indigenous newspapers and major networks for over 15 years, including APTN, CBC Radio and Global. Her debut poetry collection, this is a small northern town, won the 2009 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry/Prix Lansdowne de poésie. Her latest poetry book, Calling Down the Sky, published by BookLand Press was shortlisted for the League of Canadian Poets’ Pat Lowther Memorial Award, the Manitoba Book Award – Lansdowne Prize for Poetry, and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. She is a co-founder and a member of the Indigenous Writers Collective of Manitoba. She currently lives in Winnipeg and works as the host of Unreserved on CBC Radio One.