Métis Representations in English and French-Canadian Literature
Theses
Author/Creator
Katherine Joanne Durnin
Description
M.A. Thesis--University of Calgary, 2001.
Integrated Studies Project (M.A.)--Athabasca University, 2010.
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Highlights the life of a North West Company voyageur and his Indigenous wife that bore Métis children.
Story suitable for Grades K-3.
Discusses how the two men's writings illustrate the two views points about the best option for Red River settlement's future: those who were in favour of annexation by Canada and those who felt that it would not be in the settlement's best interests since terms and conditions of it's future would be dictated by eastern Canadians.
Excerpt from The Great Lone Land, originally published in 1873.