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Dawaa: The Space Between

Dawaa: The Space Between

Johnson, Tareyn
Johnson, Tareyn

Paperback

Indigenous Languages of the AmericasGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0776645196
ISBN13: 9780776645193
Publisher: Duo
Published: Mar 3 2026
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Dawaa: The Space Between celebrates in poetry the tensions and beauty between the two ancestral languages of the author: Ojibwe and English.

As a First Nations woman, Tareyn Johnson grew up without knowing the language of her ancestors. Her grandparents attended residential school, and neither they, nor her mother carried the language. Left with a deep longing desire to embrace Anishnaabemowin (Ojibwe) language, she began her learning journey as an adult.

As her understanding grew, words began to form visually in her mind. As a result, twenty-six poems--two for each of the Thirteen Moons--grouped seasonally, beautifully juxtapose Ojibwe and English to express Johnson's feeling of existing between two languages.

This collection of poems--not intended as a didactic or language teaching tool--examines the unique experience of walking between two worlds, speaking and learning two languages, and relating the two ways of knowing in a liminal space... the space between.

nanda-gikendan--seek to know it, seek to learn it.

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