The Pemmican Eaters by Dumont, Marilyn

The Pemmican Eaters (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781770412415)

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Format: Paperback
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The Pemmican Eaters by Dumont, Marilyn

The Pemmican Eaters

$18.95
The Pemmican Eaters by Dumont, Marilyn

The Pemmican Eaters

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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A picture of the Riel Resistance from one of Canada's preeminent M tis poets With a title derived from John A. Macdonald's moniker for the M 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.

Author: Marilyn Dumont
ISBN-10: 1770412417
ISBN-13: 9781770412415
Publisher: Misfit Book
Language: English
Published: 04/14/2015
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.30d

Review Citation(s):
Quill & Quire 04/01/2015 pg. 32
By Marilyn Dumont
By Marilyn Dumont
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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.

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