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Take us to your chief : and other stories (42520) |
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| | Physical
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150 pages
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2016
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Douglas and McIntyre
(3371)
| | Audience
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Intermediate, Junior High (IJ)
| | Collection
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Professional Library
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| | Synopsis
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A forgotten Haudenosaunee social song beams into the cosmos like
a homing beacon for interstellar visitors. A computer learns to feel
sadness and grief from the history of atrocities committed against
First Nations. A young Native man discovers the secret to time travel
in ancient petroglyphs..... Drawing inspiration from well-known
science fiction legends like Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Ray
Bradbury, Drew Hayden Taylor frames classic science-fiction tropes in
an Aboriginal perspective. The nine stories in this collection span
all traditional topics of science fiction -from peaceful aliens to
hostile invaders; from space travel to time travel; from government
conspiracies to connections across generations. Yet Taylor's First
Nations perspective draws fresh parallels, likening the cultural
implications of alien contact to those of the arrival of Europeans in
the Americas, or highlighting the impossibility of remaining a "good
Native" in such an unnatural situation as a space mission. Infused
with Native stories and variously mysterious, magical and humorous,
"Take Us to Your Chief" is the perfect mesh of nostalgically
1950s-esque science fiction with modern First Nations discourse.
| | Author
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Taylor, Drew Hayden
| | Dimensions
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23 cm
| ISBN#
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9781771621311 (paperback)
| | Pub. Loc.
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Madeira Park, BC
| | Contents
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A culturally inappropriate Armageddon -I am... am I -Lost in
space -Dreams of doom -Mr. Gizmo -Petropaths -Stars
-Superdisappointed -Take us to your chief.
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ix
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Drew Hayden Taylor.
| | Subjects
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First Nations—Fiction;
Science fiction;
Short stories;
Indigenous peoples—Canada—Fiction;
Novel studies(CK);
Aboriginal;
English/Language Arts
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FIC TAY
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FER Approved.
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