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"An Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian School. He realizes too late just how far away home is. Along the way he's followed by Manitous, spirits of the forest who comment on his plight, cajoling, taunting, a...
"In the 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of Canada's worst residential schools. St. Anne's, in northern Ontario, is an institution now notorious for the range of punish...
In 1919, Niska, an old Cree medicine woman, goes to retrieve soldier Xavier Bird, who arrives back without a leg, addicted to morphine, and near death. Niska paddles Xavier home while telling him her life story, and in r...
"Un jeune jésuite français venu en Nouvelle-France pour évangéliser les Indiens est abandonné par ses guides et capturé par les Hurons en même temps qu'une jeune Iroquoise."--Memento.
"The Orenda" opens with a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of the young Iroquois Snow Falls, a spirited girl with a special gift. Her captor, Bird, is an elder and one of the Huron nation?s great warriors and statesmen...
An Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian School. He realizes too late just how far away home is. Along the way he's followed by Manitous, spirits of the forest who comment on his plight, cajoling, taunting, an...
Riel, regarded by some as a hero and visionary, by others as a madman and misguided religious zealot, fought for the rights of the Métis people and helped establish the province of Manitoba before escaping to the United ...
Will Bird is a legendary Cree bush pilot, now in a coma; his niece Annie, returned from her journey, sits beside his bed. Their secrets are revealed - the tragic betrayal that cost Will his family, Annie's desperate sear...
Will Bird is a legendary Cree bush pilot, now in a coma; his niece Annie, returned from her journey, sits beside his bed. Their secrets are revealed - the tragic betrayal that cost Will his family, Annie's desperate sear...
A collection of short stories set in the native reserves in Northern Ontario. The characters include a young woman who falls in love with a wolf, a boy who enters the pro-wrestling ring and takes on the defending champio...
1919. Nord de l'Ontario. Niska, une vieille Indienne Cree, attend sur un quai de gare le retour d'un soldat qui a survécu à la guerre. Pourtant, l'homme qui descend du train n'est pas Elijah, mais son neveu Xavier qu'e...
An Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian School. He realizes too late just how far away home is. Along the way he's followed by Manitous, spirits of the forest who comment on his plight, cajoling, taunting, an...
"The Orenda" opens with a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of the young Iroquois Snow Falls, a spirited girl with a special gift. Her captor, Bird, is an elder and one of the Huron nations great warriors and statesmen....