Short animated depiction of the life of Edouard Beaupré, the "Willow Bunch Giant", an 8'3" man from the Métis community of Willow Bunch, SK whose life was cut short at the age of 23 at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904.
Duration: 2:25.
Author draws on Schmidt’s diary to create a biographical sketch of his life. Includes some details on Lois Riel, the Red River and North-West Resistances, St. Boniface, the Métis freighters, and other historical events and figures.
Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 1.
Contends that since early "autobiographies" were a collaboration between Aboriginals and Europeans, they are distorted and fail to convey the true essence of the personal narrative, which is an oral tradition.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, 1983, pp. 79-99
Description
Book reviews of:
Mat Hekid O Ju/When It Rains edited by Ofelia Zepeda.
The Navajo Nation by Peter Iverson.
Historic Hope Ceramics: The Thomas V. Keam Collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaelogy and Ethnology, Harvard University by Edwin L. Wade and Lea S. McChesney.
The George Rogers Clark Adventure in the Illinois, and Selected Documents of the American Revolution at the Frontier Posts by Katherine Wagner Seineke.
Life Is With People: Household Organization of the Contemporary Southern Paiute Indians by Martha C.
The Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 3, July 1983, pp. 261-276
Description
Discusses reasons why white Americans found Tecumseh to be a great man and warrior, compared to his brother Tenskwatawa the Holy man, who was thought of as a coward and pretender.