~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Fiction - 1998
Stolen Life: Journey of a Cree Woman
A powerful autobiography from Yvonne Johnson (the great-great-granddaughter of Cree leader Chief Big Bear) that recounts the story of her early life to provide a revealing account of injustice toward Indigenous women and an intensely personal testimony that aims to dispel shame and break the silences that bind . . .
The unforgettable true story of the life of a Native woman who has decided to speak out and break the silence, Stolen Life is written with the redeeming compassion that marks all Rudy Wiebe's writing, and informed throughout by Yvonne Johnson's own intelligence and poetic eloquence.
"A tribute to the human spirit that refuses to give up; to family love that persists in the face of thoughtlessness, repeated violence and denial." -- The Globe and Mail