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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 Yvonne Johnson, Michael Jacklin
Interview With Yvonne Johnson, Michael Jacklin
Michael Jacklin
Yvonne Johnson, great-great granddaughter of Plains Cree chief Big Bear, is the co-author, along with Canadian writer Rudy Wiebe, of Stolen Life: Journey of a Cree Woman (1998). Their book tells of how Johnson came to be the only First Nations woman in Canada serving a ‘life twenty-five’ sentence for first degree murder. It also narrates Johnson’s experiences of repeated sexual abuse, inflicted on her by family members and strangers, beginning when she was two years old. As Johnson had been born with a cleft palate, she was unable to communicate to others her suffering and so the abuse continued …