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'Some Stories Need To Be Told, Then Told Again': Yvonne Johnson And Rudy Wiebe, Michael Jacklin
'Some Stories Need To Be Told, Then Told Again': Yvonne Johnson And Rudy Wiebe, Michael Jacklin
Michael Jacklin
Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman (Wiebe and Johnson, 1998) is the story of Yvonne Johnson's experiences of childhood sexual abuse and incest, her repeated experiences of rape through her teenage and adult years, and her participation, with three others, in the 1989 killing and sexual abuse of Leonard Skwarok, a man they barely knew but whom they believed to be an abuser of children, and whom Johnson believed to be a threat to her own young children. Her story is, profoundly, a woman's story, a story of violation by men: by her father, by his father, by …
Interview With Rudy Wiebe (Edmonton, Alberta, August 9, 2002), Michael Jacklin
Interview With Rudy Wiebe (Edmonton, Alberta, August 9, 2002), Michael Jacklin
Michael Jacklin
MJ: I’m going to begin my questions by asking you about that first letter that Yvonne Johnson wrote introducing herself. In the parts you quote in the beginning of Stolen Life she asks for help researching her family’s past and her ancestry. In that first letter there is no mention at all about writing her life story. So that’s what I’d like to ask. How did that initial request for help tracing her ancestry change to the writing of her own life story?