Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden is a wonderful yarn which I totally loved while reading and not quite as well afterward. It is a page turner with two convincing love stories, and I couldn’t put it down until I finished. It is wonderfully written though there are a few flaws that only struck me [...]
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*Through Black Spruce
Posted in First Nations, Literature, tagged Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
*Gabriel Dumont, Metis Hero
Posted in Canada, First Nations, tagged battle between Metis and Sioux, Gabriel Dumont, Grand Coteau, Metis, Northwest Rebellion on July 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
While researching material for my current novel, I did a lot of reading about the Metis and Cree resistance, referred to in our history books as the Northwest Rebellion. Resistance or rebellion is a matter of perspective. Like all reading about First Nations history, it was heart-breaking and gripping and I felt that it should [...]
Listen and Enjoy
Posted in First Nations, Music, tagged Claude McKenzie, Florent Vollant, Innu Town, Kashtin on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Kashtin: The video quality is awful, but Claude McKenzie turns my crank even so. All the more because the car accident that shut down his career in 1999 didn’t stop him. He came back with an album in 2004, and I’m looking forward to the next one. I don’t get a word of Innu, but [...]
Artist Helen Hardin
Posted in Art & Photography, First Nations, tagged fusing styles, Helen Hardin, Native Art, Pueblo Art, Tewa Art, writer's inspiration on December 22, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I love the paintings of Helen Hardin, aka Tsa-sah-wee-eh, Little Standing Spruce. Her work is both interesting and beautiful, using Native imagery and symbols in an original, creative, innovative way. She was an innovative and meticulous artist.
As a writer, I know that there is a power in folk stories and myth. I believe that power [...]
The Iroquois-Ojibwe War
Posted in First Nations, Toronto History, tagged anishnaabe, First Nations, ontario history, Simcoe, toronto history, toronto purchase, Yonge Street on November 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I never learned this in school. There is a fascinating history of Toronto & Southern Ontario that predates Simcoe cruising Lake Ontario, looking for a good site for a settlement that wasn’t too vulnerable to American attack. Before he ever ordered his soldiers to cut down a swath of forest to build Yonge Street all [...]
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