Pemmican Eaters, The

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ECW Press, Apr 1, 2015 - Poetry - 96 pages

A picture of the Riel Resistance from one of Canada's preeminent Mé tis poets 

With a title derived from John A. Macdonald's moniker for the Mé tis, The Pemmican Eaters explores Marilyn Dumont's sense of history as the dynamic present. Combining free verse and metered poems, her latest collection aims to recreate a palpable sense of the Riel Resistance period and evoke the geographical, linguistic/cultural, and political situation of Batoche during this time through the eyes of those who experienced the battles, as well as through the eyes of Gabriel and Madeleine Dumont and Louis Riel. 

 Included in this collection are poems about the bison, seed beadwork, and the Red River Cart, and some poems employ elements of the Michif language, which, along with French and Cree, was spoken by Dumont's ancestors. In Dumont's The Pemmican Eaters, a multiplicity of identities is a strengthening rather than a weakening or diluting force in culture.

 

Contents

Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Section 18
Section 19
Section 20
Section 21
Section 22
Section 23
Section 24
Section 25

Section 9
Section 10
Section 11
Section 12
Section 13
Section 14
Section 15
Section 16
Section 17
Section 26
Section 27
Section 28
Section 29
Section 30
Section 31
Section 32
Section 33
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Aboriginal animaux barrel Batoche bead a birth beadberry beneath the water black mare born beneath brothers camp Canadian carts cold cree woman caw crow cree woman dance darkest depths earth Edmonton Public Library expert eyes family’s father feet fiddle and bow fingers Gabriel call Gabriel Dumont Gabriel Senior Gatling gun grass halfbreed hides holes horses houses once witness Howard hunt Ibid Indian knew land language leaf limbs lines lot crow knows Louis Riel memory Métis river lot Métis Settlement Michif Middleton’s mother Narcisse nation just admit needle Neil McLeod night palm palomino parents Pemmican Pentimento petal prairie prays pulling the universe quarter sections Red River framed return to text Rougarou Saskatchewan saskatoons scrip seed bead settlers shot single blade sky berry stem story Sundre track trail twisting uncle University of Alberta want to forget wanted to treat water berry woman crow cree

About the author (2015)

Marilyn Dumont's poetry has won provincial and national awards. She has been the writer-in-residence at five Canadian universities and the Edmonton Public Library as well as an advisor in the Aboriginal Emerging Writers Program at the Banff Centre. She teaches sessional creative writing for Athabasca University and Native studies and English for the University of Alberta. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta.

Bibliographic information

TitlePemmican Eaters, The
AuthorMarilyn Dumont
Editionillustrated
PublisherECW Press, 2015
ISBN177090722X, 9781770907225
Length96 pages
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Poetry / Canadian
  
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