A Blackfoot History: The Winter Counts
Book Reviews
Alberta History, vol. 65, no. 2, Spring, 2017, p. 26
Description
Book review of A Blackfoot History by Paul M. Raczka.
Descriptive study to determine if obesity and self-reported diabetes rise with increasing geographic accessibility to urban centres.
Recommended for Grade 3 students.
Discusses a play, The Book of Jessica, that illustrates the struggle women have in understanding what being "a woman" means, including across the barriers of race, culture, privilege and age.
Looks at traditional childbirth practices of the Vuntut Gwitchin, Trondëk Hwëch’in, and Na-Cho Nyak Dun First Nations.