Marilyn Dumont est née en 1955
à nord-est d’Alberta. Elle est
poète. Elle est d’origine Métis et
Crie. Elle a fait un majeur d’anglais à
l’université de l’Alberta et elle a étudié à l’université de la Colombie-Britannique
pour l’écriture créative. Là elle a fini
sa maitrise en beaux-arts. Elle a
travaillé comme professeur à l’université de Simon Fraser, de Kwatlen et de l’Alberta. Là elle a enseigné des cours de l’anglais et de
l’écriture créative. Elle est écrivaine
en résidence à l’université de l’Alberta, de Windsor, de Toronto et de Grant
MacEwan. De plus, elle a travaillé comme
stagiaire à l’Office national du film du Canada.
Elle a reçu
un prix, le Gerald Lampert Memorial Award en 1997 pour son écriture. Elle a reçu deux autres prix : le
Stephan G. Stephansson Award en 2001 et le Anskohk Aboriginal Poetry Book of
the Year en 2007. Voici quelques de ses
collections d’écriture : A Really Good Brown Girl, Green Girl Dreams Mountains
et That Tongued Belonging.
Ses poèmes
sont souvent à propos des femmes autochtone au Canada. Elle a lu ses poèmes à la radio et à la
télévision. Ses poèmes sont publiés dans
les revues littéraires canadiens. Elle
est allée en Nouvelle-Zélande pour lire ses poèmes pour le Honouring Words
Celebration avec d’autres écrivains d’origine autochtone. Elle est allée en d’autres pays aussi pour
lire ses poèmes comme : l’Écosse et la Belgique. Elle a une connexion familiale avec Gabriel
Dumont qui était le général de Louis Riel.
Elle va faire un projet lié avec ce lien familial.
Sources :
http://canadian-writers.athabascau.ca/english/writers/mdumont/mdumont.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Dumont
http://arcpoetry.ca/2014/04/21/national-poetry-month-marilyn-dumont-the-land-she-came-from/
The land she came from
cree woman crow
cree woman caw
black shiny bird-woman
crow and caw those who
command you, “Go back to the land you came from”
cree woman caw
black shiny bird-woman
crow and caw those who
command you, “Go back to the land you came from”
so shiny black bird woman plants herself in front of Frank Oliver’s house
has her photograph snapped in 1885
her image singed into his pupils
into the inky black and white pages
of his Bulletin
the official but negative space
in Edmonton’s story
not the other story
of Metis river lots
severed into city blocks
has her photograph snapped in 1885
her image singed into his pupils
into the inky black and white pages
of his Bulletin
the official but negative space
in Edmonton’s story
not the other story
of Metis river lots
severed into city blocks
a quarter from a Metis river lot
crow knows what was what
when it all went wrong
crow knows what was what
when it all went wrong
cree woman crow
cree woman caw
call out those names
cawcaw caw: Rutherford
call out those names
names that now, mysteriously bear title
to land once granted your husband
his reward for 30 years HBC service
as carpenter and blacksmith
cree woman caw
call out those names
cawcaw caw: Rutherford
call out those names
names that now, mysteriously bear title
to land once granted your husband
his reward for 30 years HBC service
as carpenter and blacksmith
a quarter for a halfbreed lot
crow knows what was what
when it all went wrong
crow knows what was what
when it all went wrong
cree woman crow
cree woman caw
crow and caw names
of those known as “better men”
when Indians couldn’t own land
call out their names
cawcaw caw: Oliver
stand iron-fisted before
his two-story-red-brick-house
rising civil in the background
cree woman caw
crow and caw names
of those known as “better men”
when Indians couldn’t own land
call out their names
cawcaw caw: Oliver
stand iron-fisted before
his two-story-red-brick-house
rising civil in the background
a quarter for a Metis river lot
crow knows what was what
when it all went wrong
crow knows what was what
when it all went wrong
cree woman crow
cree woman caw
crow woman dig down
scrape away the layers
of sleeping memory
down to the stake lines of river lots
in Rossdale and beyond
far down to the Metis family names
still breathing there: Donald, Bird, Ward
push away the top soil, sand and silt
to names: Daigneault, Charland, Gladue
uncover their stories of migration
to build and supply Beaver Hills House
before it all went wrong
cree woman caw
crow woman dig down
scrape away the layers
of sleeping memory
down to the stake lines of river lots
in Rossdale and beyond
far down to the Metis family names
still breathing there: Donald, Bird, Ward
push away the top soil, sand and silt
to names: Daigneault, Charland, Gladue
uncover their stories of migration
to build and supply Beaver Hills House
before it all went wrong
uncover the names of profiteers
Lord Strathcona, for one
snapping up script and reserve land
for the price of a sack of groceries
when Pahpaschee’s people
were starving and deprived of rations
recite his name: Pahpaschees, Pahpaschees, Pahpaschees
so it won’t wash away in the flood of “progress”
Lord Strathcona, for one
snapping up script and reserve land
for the price of a sack of groceries
when Pahpaschee’s people
were starving and deprived of rations
recite his name: Pahpaschees, Pahpaschees, Pahpaschees
so it won’t wash away in the flood of “progress”
http://arcpoetry.ca/2014/04/21/national-poetry-month-marilyn-dumont-the-land-she-came-from/
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