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Mamaskatch, Darrel J. McLeods 2018 memoir of growing up Cree in Northern Alberta, was a publishing sensationwinning the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, shortlisted for many other major prizes and translated into French and German editions. In Peyakow, McLeod continues the poignant story of his impoverished youth, beset by constant fears of being dragged down by the self-destruction and deaths of those closest to him as he battles the bullying of white classmates, copes with the trauma of physical and sexual abuse, and endures painful separation from his family and culture. With steely determination, he triumphs: now elementary teacher; now school principal; now head of an Indigenous delegation to the UN in Geneva; now executive in the Government of Canadaand now a celebrated author.
Brutally frank but buoyed throughout by McLeods unquenchable spirit, Peyakowa title borrowed from the Cree word for one who walks aloneis an inspiring account of triumph against unimaginable odds. McLeods perspective as someone whose career path has crossed both sides of the Indigenous/white chasm resonates with particular force in todays Canada.
