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Black Water : Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory [6 Books] (40858) |
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| | Physical
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274 pieces
| | Copyrighted
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2020
| | Distributor
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HarperCollins Publishers
(2810)
| | Country
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Canada
| | Audience
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Intermediate, Junior High (IJ)
| | Collection
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Booking Library
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| | Synopsis
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"David A. Robertson, the son of a Cree father and a white, settler
mother, grew up with virtually no knowledge or understanding of his
family's Indigenous roots. His father, Dulas, or Don as he became
known, had grown up on the trapline in the bush only to be
transplanted permanently to a house on reserve in Manitoba, where he
was not permitted to speak his language—Swampy Cree—and was forced
to learn and speak only English while in day school, unless in secret
in the forest with his friends. Robertson's mother, Beverly Eyers,
grew up in a small town in Manitoba, a town with no Indigenous
families, until Don came to town as a United Church minister and fell
in love with her. Robertson's parents made the decision to raise their
children, in his words, "separate from his Indigenous identity." He
grew up without his father's teachings or knowledge of his life or
experiences. All he had left was blood memory, the pieces of who he
was engrained in the fabric of his DNA. Pieces that he has spent a
lifetime putting together. Black Water is a family memoir of
intergenerational trauma and healing, of connection, of story, of how
David Robertson's father's life—growing up in Norway House Cree
Nation in Manitoba, then making the journey from Norway House to
Winnipeg—informed the author's own life, and might even have saved
it. Facing a story nearly erased by the designs of history, father and
son journey together back to the trapline at Black Water, through the
past to create a new future."—
| | Author
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Robertson, David
| | Dimensions
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31 x 40 cm.
| | Edition
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First Edition
| ISBN#
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9781443457781
| | Pub. Loc.
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | Contents
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6 Books ; 1 Literature Circles Guide
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6 Books ; 1 Literature Circles Guide all in a 31 x 40 cm. clear
plastic bag.
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Written by David A. Robertson
| | Guide
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Guide Included
| | Subjects
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Cree (First Nations people)—Biography;
Father-son relationship—Fiction;
Literature Circles(CK);
First Nations authors—Canada—Biography;
Aboriginal;
First Nations—Biography;
English/Language Arts
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LIT HIS 10-12
| | Note
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FER Approved.
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