Little Athapapuskow: A Métis Love Story (4 in stock, Out of Print)
Synopsis:
Little Athapapuskow is collection of poems named after a lake Guy Freedman grew up on near Flin Flon, Manitoba. They represent his efforts to challenge Catholicism and its complicity with the Confederation project, which dismantled the New Nation developing in the Canadian Northwest. The poems are organized into three parts—past, present, and future—and they address the inter-generational impacts of the Church on his family in relation to the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. This book is his love song to his home and to his country.
Educator Information
Recommended resource for Grades 10-12 English Language Arts and Social Studies.
Contains poems about the history of the Métis people, family, love, celebration of culture, colonialism, religion, violence.
Caution: Some poems contain strong language and mature subject matter, such as discussions of violence, alcoholism, and sexuality.
Additional Information
86 pages | 7.25" x 5.75 "