Brown's celebrated biography of the Canadian rebel Louis Riel tells the story of the charismatic, and perhaps mad, nineteenth-century Metis leader whose struggle to win rights for his people led to violent rebellion on the nations...
Métis
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Author:Bumsted, J. M.Summary:Thomas Douglas, the Fifth Earl of Selkirk (1770-1820), was a complex man of his times, whose passions left an indelible mark on Canadian history. A product of the Scottish Enlightenment and witness to the French Revolution, he dedicated...
- Author:Vermette, KatherenaSummary:
Lorsque qu'une jeune Métisse est victime d'une violente agression, les contrecoups se font sentir dans toute la communauté du quartier North End de Winnipeg. Policiers chargés de l'enquête, famille, amis et connaissances voient...
- Author:Cenerini, RhéalSummary:
Après une longue absence, James Coutu rentre chez lui, une petite communauté de pêcheurs métis sur les bords du Grand lac. Il revient, dit-il, pour rdonni la vie à lis ceuses ki nont pas. En ce faisant, il se met à dos des puissances...
- Author:Gareau, LaurierSummary:
La trahison est un entretien passionné entre Gabriel Dumont et le vieux curé de Batoche, le père Julien Moulin. Nous sommes en 1905 et le vieux Métis veut être enterré avec les siens dans le cimetière de Batoche, mais il n'a...
- Author:Féron, JeanSummary:
Héraldine Lecours défie sans relâche la loi scolaire interdisant l’enseignement du français… jusqu’au jour de sa destitution. Condamnée à affronter une société réfractaire à sa propre culture, Héraldine, dit la Métisse, s’...
- Author:Charette, GuillaumeSummary:
À travers les souvenirs de Louis Goulet le lecteur se familiarise avec la vie des Métis. Découvrez la culture et le folklore de ce peuple, partagez la liberté des plaines avant le bouleversement de 1885.
- Author:Fraser, Greg N.Summary:
An intriguing look at the accomplishments and contradictions of Joseph William McKay, best known as the founder of Nanaimo, BC, and one of the most successful Métis men to rise through the ranks of the Hudson's Bay Company in the...
- Author:Jackson, John C.Summary:
Jemmy Jock Bird, the son of a Cree woman and an English trader employed by the Hudson's Bay Company, has become part of the mythology of the mountain man era. In this creative non-fiction account, Jackson meticulously reconstructs...
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Author:Vowel, ChelseaSummary:Delgamuukw. Sixties Scoop. Bill C-31. Blood quantum. Appropriation. Two-Spirit. Tsilhqot'in. Status. TRC. RCAP. FNPOA. Pass and permit. Numbered Treaties. Terra nullius. The Great Peace... Are you familiar with the terms listed above?...
- Author:Sinclair, Raven, Vermette, Katherena, Mosionier, BeatriceSummary:
In this moving story of legacy and reclamation, two young sisters are taken from their home and family. Powerless in a broken system, April and Cheryl are separated and placed in different foster homes. Despite the distance, they remain...
- Author:Tétreault, MatthewSummary:
Upon learning his great-uncle Alfred has suffered a stroke, Richard sets out for Ste. Anne, in southeastern Manitoba, to find his father and tell him the news. Waylaid by memories of his stalled romance, tales of run-ins with local...
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Author:Shaw, Carol AnneSummary:In the second volume of the Hannah trilogy, summer has arrived, and fourteen-year-old Hannah Anderson is excited about spending it with Max (who has been giving her stomach butterflies lately). But things are happening in Cowichan Bay...
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Author:Noel, MichelSummary:Winner of the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction. The year is 1959, and fifteen-year-old Nipishish returns to his reserve in northern Quebec after being kicked out of residential school, where the principal tells him he's a...
- Author:Tegenkamp, Diana HopeSummary:
In this stellar debut collection by Métis poet Diana Hope Tegenkamp we find solace and outrage, grief and tenderness, bewilderment and beauty, all "entangled in hope and dreaming." After many losses-of a mother known and loved, of a...
- Author:Léveillé, J. R.Summary:
L’été à Ganiishomong, une narratrice rédige l’histoire d’un narrateur qui raconte celle d’une narratrice. L’écriture poursuit la fiction dans l’extase du temps. Les souvenirs d’enfance (la nudité des cousines est désirable ; le...
- Author:Prefontaine, Darren RSummary:
Gabriel Dumont is an iconic figure in Métis and Canadian history. In the popular imagination, he is well known for leading the Métis forces during the 1885 Resistance, and for being a renowned bison hunt leader, a Wild West show...
- Author:Thistle, JesseSummary:
In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, once a high school dropout and now a rising Indigenous scholar, chronicles his life on the streets and how he overcame trauma and addiction to discover the truth about who...
- Author:Dimaline, CherieSummary:
Broken-hearted Joan has been searching for her husband, Victor, for almost a year--ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument. One hung-over morning in a Walmart parking lot in a little town near...
- Author:Leroux, DarrylSummary:
Distorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty-first century: otherwise white, French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self-defined "Indigenous" identity. This study is not about...
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