"The award-winning Stolen Life is a remarkable collaborative work between a distinguished novelist and a Cree woman who broke a lifetime of silence to share her story. Imprisoned for murder at the age of twenty-seven, Yvonne Johnson sought out Rudy Wiebe, the chronicler of her ancestor Big Bear, as a means of coming to terms with her self, her past, and the crime that defines her future. The ensuing story, which is told with Wiebe's compassion and infused with Johnson's intelligence and spirituality, defies the grisly events of her life"--Back cover.

Chapter 1: Blood runs thick and long for ever -- Chapter 2: My eyes became my voice -- Chapter 3: A killing in the family -- Chapter 4: The only good Indian -- Chapter 5: That's right, drive me to winter -- Chapter 6: Growing up in a beer bottle -- Chapter 7: Wetaskiwin: the place where peace is made -- Chapter 8: Down into disaster -- Chapter 9: Three days in September 1989 -- Chapter 10: If I gave you a gun, would you shoot me? -- Chapter 11: You have nothing to hope, and nothing to fear -- Chapter 12: The power of my name: why I must remember this -- Chapter 13: If I don't beat you up, you'll sleep with me? -- Chapter 14: Spirit keepers -- Chapter 15: What you did, and where you did it -- Chapter 16: Since the time when the earth was first born -- Epilogue: Where people are.