- Paperback: 150 pages
- Publisher: Press Gang Publishers,Canada; large type edition edition (Dec 1988)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0889740224
- ISBN-13: 978-0889740228
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.5 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 832,841 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Since its first publication in 1981, "Daughters of Copper Woman" has become an underground classic, selling over 200,000 copies. Now comes a new edition that includes many pieces cut from the original as well as fresh material added by the author. Here finally, after twenty-two years of gathering dust, is the complete version of the groundbreaking best-seller. In this, her best-loved work, Anne Cameron has created a timeless retelling of north-west coast Native myths that together create a sublime image of the social and spiritual power of woman. Cameron weaves together the lives of legendary and imaginary characters, creating a work of fiction with an intensity of style matched by the power of its subject.
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Anne Cameron was born in Nanaimo BC. She began writing at an early age, starting with theatre scripts and screenplays. In 1979, her film Dreamspeaker, directed by Claude Jutra, won seven Canadian Film Awards, including best script. After being published as a novel, Dreamspeaker went on to win the Gibson Award for Literature. She has published more than 30 books.
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The stories that inspired this book were taught to me by the generous and wonderful elder women of the Nuuchah-nulth Nation, who are my friends and who for years were my neighbours on Vancouver Island. Read the first page
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a stunningly beautiful, shocking book about the legends of the Nootka women of Vancouver Island, Canada. I count it among my favourite books, and regard it as a beautiful oddity.
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Daughters of Copper Woman
4 Dec 1999
Format:Paperback
My first reaction to this book was that it was one of the most beautifully written books I have read, one that cries out to be read aloud. Anne Cameron's sentences read like poetry rather than prose, very lyrical and rhythmical. There's no way its content could be fiction; she must have talked with the women memorizers who remember the oral legends for the Vancouver Nootka Native American tribes. Copper Woman is both the mother of the tribe from whom they are all descended and the respected Old Woman that is within each woman helping her to endure, to remember the old secrets and teachings, and to relearn any lost secrets. Copper Woman is there when the "keestadores" turned the Nootka world upside down and is there yet today as the Woman's Society shares its knowledge and soft power with all the women of the world.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Enchanting and painful history
11 Oct 2001
Format:Paperback
The story that is being told here, goes directly to the heart. The whole book breathes a feeling of ancient indian mythology and knowledge. It is enchanting to read about this vast amount of indian knowledge and about the completeness of their view on the world, which is so different from 'western' approaches. It is also painful to read about the losses as a result of wars and as a result of their being unique and not adapted. But it is an important lesson to see how they deal with this loss, and how they can place themselves in a changing and evolving world, where civilizations rise, flourish and decline and where everyone has its place in time.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
My favorite all time book.
25 Feb 1997
Format:Paperback
This book contains stories from the native people
of Vancouver Island, retold by Anne Cameron
much as they had been told to her.
You will find it is a collection of stories, many about
Copperwoman. Though she is more diety than human,
her joy and pain are terribly real.
Woven throughout the stories are bits and pieces
of the present day. As you read you find yourself
weaving in and out from past to present and then back
to the past again. As I progressed through the book I felt
a deep sense of connection with women of all time.
of Vancouver Island, retold by Anne Cameron
much as they had been told to her.
You will find it is a collection of stories, many about
Copperwoman. Though she is more diety than human,
her joy and pain are terribly real.
Woven throughout the stories are bits and pieces
of the present day. As you read you find yourself
weaving in and out from past to present and then back
to the past again. As I progressed through the book I felt
a deep sense of connection with women of all time.
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