{"product_id":"the-memoirs-of-miss-chief-eagle-testickle-vol-1-isbn-9780771022814","title":"The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1","description":"\u003cb\u003eINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor decades\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ethe singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego of sorts, a shape-shifting, time-travelling elemental being named Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Though we have glimpsed her across the years in films and on countless canvases, it is finally time to hear her story, in her own words. And, in doing so, to hear the whole history of Turtle Island anew.\u003ci\u003e The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island\u003c\/i\u003e is a genre-demolishing work of genius, the imagined history of a legendary figure through which profound truths emerge—a deeply Cree and gloriously queer understanding of our shared world, its past, its present, and its possibilities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolume One, which covers the period from the creation of the universe to the confederation of Canada, follows Miss Chief as she moves through time, from a complex lived experience of Cree cosmology to the arrival of European settlers, many of whom will be familiar to students of history. An open-hearted being, she tries to live among those settlers, and guide them to a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness of all beings and the world itself. As their numbers grow, though, so does conflict, and Miss Chief begins to understand that the challenges posed by the hordes of newly arrived Europeans will mean ever greater danger for her, her people, and, by extension, all of the world she cherishes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlending history, fiction, and memoir in bold new ways, \u003ci\u003eThe Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle\u003c\/i\u003e are unlike anything published before. And in\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003etheir power to reshape our shared understanding, they promise to change\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe way we see everything that lies ahead.\u003cb\u003eINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the 2024 VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of Indigo's Top 100 Best Books of 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Long a persona stalking the paintings of provocative Cree artist Kent Monkman, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle steps off the canvas to tell her own story—and that of the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island—in a two volume collaboration with Gisèle Gordon. Lavishly illustrated with Monkman’s paintings, \u003ci\u003eThe Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle\u003c\/i\u003e is at once (and seamlessly) a unique story of an even more unique deity, an exposition of nêhiyaw (Cree) beliefs and a primer in nêhiyawêwin (Cree Language), and a deeply researched history of contact, colonization, and resurgence. A full-blown remediation of the politically-charged and erotic world of Monkman’s paintings, these books educate, inspire, entertain, and leave the reader breathless.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Steve Collis, 2024 VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award judge\u003c\/b\u003eKENT MONKMAN is an interdisciplinary Cree visual artist. A member of Fisher River Cree Nation in Treaty 5 Territory (Manitoba, Canada), he lives and works in Dish With One Spoon Territory (Toronto, Canada). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMonkman’s painting and installation works are held in public collections of institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; Hirshhorn Museum; National Gallery of Canada; Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; Art Gallery of Ontario; and La maison rouge, Paris. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGISÉLE GORDON is a settler media artist and writer based in Dish With One Spoon Territory (Toronto, Canada). Her solo work includes the feature-length documentary, \u003ci\u003eThe Tunguska Project\u003c\/i\u003e (Best Feature Length Film at the Planet in Focus Film Festival, 2005), the video installations \u003ci\u003eCrosscurrent\u003c\/i\u003e (2013 Moscow Biennale), and \u003ci\u003eThe Land that Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e (with Hannah Hurtzig, Luminato 2014).","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233712320741,"sku":"NP9780771022814","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771022814.jpg?v=1767740464","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-memoirs-of-miss-chief-eagle-testickle-vol-1-isbn-9780771022814","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}