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Other essays explore the role of the Indian Agents and missionaries played in regulating the moral

This 2014 publication elders share stories from their lives and tell what it was like to live in a time before television

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National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction

Childhood Thoughts and Water Dogrib rattling hoovesChildhood Thoughts and Water by John McDonald, a sixth generation direct descendant of Nehiyawak Chief Mistawasis and resident on Treaty Six Territory in Northern Saskatchewan, is a collection of beat poetry, spoken word, performance art and lyrical verse. This is a work which journeys into the memories and events of an urban Indigenous warrior's struggles to reconnect with a language and culture that is seemingly always almost out of reach. The