<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for "Highway, Tomson"]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for "Highway, Tomson"]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/portmoody/rss/search?query=%22Highway%2C%20Tomson%22&amp;searchType=author&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:07:01 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Grand Chief Salamoo Cook Is Coming to Town!]]></title><link>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C476981</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C476981</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Highway, Tomson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/476981056</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9782898360428/MC.GIF&amp;client=portmpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughing With the Trickster]]></title><link>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C460171</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C460171</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Highway, Tomson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/460171056</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>On Sex, Death, and Accordions</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781487011239/MC.GIF&amp;client=portmpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughing With the Trickster]]></title><description><![CDATA["Brilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world's most treasured Indigenous creators. Trickster is zany, ridiculous. The ultimate, over-the-top, madcap lunatic. Here to remind us that the reason for existence is to have one blast of a time, to laugh ourselves to death. Ever the trickster, Tomson Highway brings his signature irreverence to an exploration of five themes central to the human condition: language, creation, sex and gender, humour, and death. A comparative analysis of Christian, Classical, and Cree mythologies reveals how they have given form and substance to Western thought, life, and culture. Yet Indigenous mythologies provide unique, timeless solutions to our modern problems. Tomson Highway offers generous personal anecdotes, including of his beloved accordion-playing father, and plentiful Trickster stories as guides through such crises as climate change, economic disparity, racial intolerance, and all-out unhappiness. Laughter is medicine. Within the endless circle of life in Indigenous mythologies, the Earth is a garden of joy unlimited. A world we must protect as the birthright of future generations. Laugh with the legendary Tomson Highway as he illuminates a healing, hilarious way forward."--]]></description><link>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C467161</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C467161</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Highway, Tomson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/467161056</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>On Sex, Death, and Accordions</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781487011246/MC.GIF&amp;client=portmpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kiss of the Fur Queen]]></title><link>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C450612</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C450612</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Highway, Tomson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/450612056</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385697217/MC.GIF&amp;client=portmpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Permanent Astonishment]]></title><description><![CDATA[NATIONAL BESTSELLER Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada'most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performers Tomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the eleventh of twelve children in a nomadic, caribou-hunting Cree family. Growing up in a land of ten thousand lakes and islands, Tomson relished being pulled by dogsled beneath a night sky alive with stars, sucking the juices from roasted muskrat tails, and singing country music songs with his impossibly beautiful older sister and her teenaged friends. Surrounded by the love of his family and the vast, mesmerizing landscape they called home, his was in many ways an idyllic far-north childhood. But five of Tomson's siblings died in childhood, and Balazee and Joe Highway, who loved their surviving children profoundly, wanted their two youngest sons, Tomson and Rene, to enjoy opportunities as big as the world. And so when Tomson was six, he was flown south by float plane to attend a residential school. A year later Rene joined him to begin the rest of their education. In 1990 Rene Highway, a world-renowned dancer, died of an AIDS-related illness. Permanent Astonishment: Growing Up in the Land of Snow and Sky is Tomson's extravagant embrace of his younger brother's final words: "Don't mourn me, be joyful." His memoir offers insights, both hilarious and profound, into the Cree experience of culture, conquest, and survival. ]]></description><link>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C458173</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C458173</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Highway, Tomson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/458173056</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385675079/MC.GIF&amp;client=portmpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Permanent Astonishment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada&rsquo;s most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performers Tomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the eleventh of twelve children in a nomadic, caribou-hunting Cree family. Growing up in a land of ten thousand lakes and islands, Tomson relished being pulled by dogsled beneath a night sky alive with stars, sucking the juices from roasted muskrat tails, and singing country music songs with his impossibly beautiful older sister and her teenaged friends. Surrounded by the love of his family and the vast, mesmerizing landscape they called home, his was in many ways an idyllic far-north childhood. But five of Tomson's siblings died in childhood, and Balazee and Joe Highway, who loved their surviving children profoundly, wanted their two youngest sons, Tomson and Rene, to enjoy opportunities as big as the world. And so when Tomson was six, he was flown south by float plane to attend a residential school. A year later Rene joined him to begin the rest of their education. In 1990 Rene Highway, a world-renowned dancer, died of an AIDS-related illness. Permanent Astonishment: Growing Up in the Land of Snow and Sky is Tomson's extravagant embrace of his younger brother's final words: "Don't mourn me, be joyful." His memoir offers insights, both hilarious and profound, into the Cree experience of culture, conquest, and survival.]]></description><link>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C454586</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C454586</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Highway, Tomson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/454586056</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385696210/MC.GIF&amp;client=portmpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Permanent Astonishment]]></title><link>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C446428</link><guid 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Tomson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/304661056</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Celebration of Indigenous Literature in Canada, 1980-2010</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781772011166/MC.GIF&amp;client=portmpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dragonfly Kites]]></title><link>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C286656</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C286656</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Highway, Tomson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 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Fur Queen]]></title><link>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C265397</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C265397</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Highway, Tomson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/265397056</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385674164/MC.GIF&amp;client=portmpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout]]></title><description><![CDATA[Based on a deposition signed by 14 Chiefs of the Thompson River basin on the occasion of a visit to their lands by Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1910, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout is a ritualized retelling of how the Native Peoples of British Columbia lost their fishing, hunting and grazing rights, their lands, and finally their language without their agreement or consent, and without any treaties ever having been signed. It is one of the most compellingly tragic cases of cultural genocide to emerge from the history of colonialism, enacted by four women whose stories follow each other like the cyclical seasons they represent.]]></description><link>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C502762</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C502762</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Highway, Tomson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/502762056</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A &quot;string Quartet&quot; for Four Female Actors</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781772015690/MC.GIF&amp;client=portmpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rez Sisters]]></title><description><![CDATA[This award-winning play by a native playwright is a powerful and moving portrayal of seven women from a reserve attempting to beat the odds by winning at bingo. It is the biggest bingo in the world and a chance to win a way out of a tortured life. Aboriginal.]]></description><link>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C458798</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C458798</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Highway, Tomson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 1988 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/458798056</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Play in Two Acts</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780920079447/MC.GIF&amp;client=portmpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Story]]></title><link>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C458522</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S56C458522</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://portmoody.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/458522056</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Aboriginal Voices on Canada&apos;s Past</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385660761/MC.GIF&amp;client=portmpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>