Author: STUMP, [MARION] SARAIN
Title: There Is My People Sleeping - the Ethnic Poem-Drawings of Sarain Stump
Description: Sidney, British Columbia: Gray's Publishing, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0888260253. Illustrated by Stump, Sarain. "Sarain Stump (1945-1974), Indigenous name Sock-a-jaw-wu, had little formal education and was encouraged to learn from his Shoshone-Cree elders. Moving to an Alberta ranch in 1964, he began the poems and drawings for [this book]. He promoted traditional Indigenous values and sought to help young Indigenous people gain pride in their heritage while coping with the modern world." - The Canadian Encyclopedia. Art and brief text on alternating unnumbered pages. 1.8 cm thick. Tight and unmarked with average wear and somewhat above-average external soiling. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. A sound copy. ; Illustrations; 8vo. Good .

Keywords: 0888260253 Native Peoples