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Author: Rudy Wiebe Publisher: Penguin Canada ISBN: 0143172700 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 113
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Big Bear (1825–1888) was a Plains Cree chief in Saskatchewan at a time when aboriginals were confronted with the disappearance of the buffalo and waves of European settlers that seemed destined to destroy the Indian way of life. In 1876 he refused to sign Treaty No. 6, until 1882, when his people were starving. Big Bear advocated negotiation over violence, but when the federal government refused to negotiate with aboriginal leaders, some of his followers killed 9 people at Frog Lake in 1885. Big Bear himself was arrested and imprisoned. Rudy Wiebe, author of a Governor General’s Award–winning novel about Big Bear, revisits the life of the eloquent statesman, one of Canada’s most important aboriginal leaders.
Author: Rudy Wiebe Publisher: Penguin Canada ISBN: 0143172700 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 113
Book Description
Big Bear (1825–1888) was a Plains Cree chief in Saskatchewan at a time when aboriginals were confronted with the disappearance of the buffalo and waves of European settlers that seemed destined to destroy the Indian way of life. In 1876 he refused to sign Treaty No. 6, until 1882, when his people were starving. Big Bear advocated negotiation over violence, but when the federal government refused to negotiate with aboriginal leaders, some of his followers killed 9 people at Frog Lake in 1885. Big Bear himself was arrested and imprisoned. Rudy Wiebe, author of a Governor General’s Award–winning novel about Big Bear, revisits the life of the eloquent statesman, one of Canada’s most important aboriginal leaders.
Author: Ernest Thompson Seton Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 230
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Story of the life of a grizzly bear in the Sierra Nevadas, his capture and last days spent in a cage in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
Author: Maureen Wright Publisher: Two Lions ISBN: 9780761459590 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Big Bear thinks that his tremendous sneezes are causing the leaves and apples to fall off the trees and the geese to fly away, but when the wind finally convinces him otherwise, he knows what to do.
Author: Theresa Gowanlock Publisher: University of Regina Press ISBN: 9780889771079 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 124
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In Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear, the accounts of Theresa Delaney and Theresa Gowanlock were made to conform to the literary convention of the "Indian captivity narrative." Sarah Carter's scholarly introduction provokes a careful reconsideration of the text.
Author: John Zada Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd ISBN: 1771645199 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 240
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This evocative work of nature writing traverses the world’s largest temperate rainforest to uncover the legend of the Sasquatch. Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest is home to trees as tall as skyscrapers and moss as thick as carpet. According to the people who live there, another giant may dwell in these woods. For centuries, locals have reported encounters with the Sasquatch—a species of hairy man-ape that could inhabit this pristine wilderness. Driven by his childhood obsession with the Sasquatch, yet trying to remain objective, journalist John Zada seeks out the people and stories surrounding this enigmatic creature. He speaks with local Indigenous peoples and a Sasquatch-studying scientist. He hikes with a former bear hunter. Soon, he finds himself on quest for something infinitely more complex, cutting across questions of human perception, scientific inquiry, Indigenous traditions, the environment, and the power of the human imagination to believe in—or to outright dismiss—one of nature’s last great mysteries.
Author: John Ralston Saul Publisher: Penguin Canada ISBN: 0143178741 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 222
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Canada has no better interpreter than prolific writer and thinker John Ralston Saul. Here he argues that Canada did not begin in 1867; indeed, its foundation was laid by two visionary men, Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin. The two leaders of Lower and Upper Canada, respectively, worked together after the 1841 Union to lead a reformist movement for responsible government run by elected citizens instead of a colonial governor. But it was during the "Great Ministry" of 1848—51 that the two politicians implemented laws that created a more equitable country. They revamped judicial institutions, created a public education system, made bilingualism official, designed a network of public roads, began a public postal system, and reformed municipal governance. Faced with opposition, and even violence, the two men— polar opposites in temperament—united behind a set of principles and programs that formed modern Canada. Writing with verve and deep conviction, Saul restores these two extraordinary Canadians to rightful prominence.
Author: Douglas Coupland Publisher: Atlas and Company ISBN: 1935633163 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 225
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Surveys the life and career of the social theorist best known for the quotation, "The medium is the message, " who helped shape the culture of the 1960s and predicted the future of television and the rise of the Internet.
Author: Rudy Wiebe
Author: Rudy Wiebe
Author: Rudy Wiebe
Author: Ernest Thompson Seton
Author: Rudy Wiebe
Author: Nicholas Oldland
Author: Maureen Wright
Author: Theresa Gowanlock
Author: John Zada
Author: John Ralston Saul
Author: Douglas Coupland