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This is a small northern town

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  • Author: Deerchild, Rosanna
    Summary:

    These are poems about what it means to be from the north ; a town divided along colour lines ; and a family dealing with its history of secrets. At it's core, this collection is about the life of a Cree girl and the places she finds comfort and escape .... Rosanna Deerchild is Cree from South Indian Lake, Manitoba.

    Contents:
    • How to hunt moose
    • Wedding portrait
    • Paper indians
    • This is a small northern town
    • Winter festival
    • The trapline
    • Indian bay
    • Rain
    • Hero
    • Static
    • Mama making moccasins
    • One man's garbage
    • Wild-girl
    • Forbidden to go barefoot blues
    • Hiding in the dark
    • Crazy horse is a girl
    • First testament (or jesus had an indian sister)
    • Candy store
    • Looking for god
    • Honky-tonk song
    • Cousin comes in from the bush
    • Good boys in small northern town
    • Candy store cowboy
    • Undercurrent
    • Daddy's dragonfly
    • Upside down and backward butterflies
    • Baptism
    • Dreaming dress
    • Waiting
    • Baptisms
    • Baptism day
    • Submerge
    • Ceremony
    • Where ceremonies go
    • Blue
    • Scars
    • In my brother's letter
    • Good girls in small northern town
    • Trailer park alley
    • Lola
    • Worth
    • New river (or honky-tonk song
    • hidden verse)
    • Northern lights
    • This flight tonight.
    Genre: Canadian poetry, Indigenous materials
    Original Publisher: Canada , Winnipeg, MB, Canada , J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781897289358

    ,

    1897289359

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Abstract

These are poems about what it means to be from the north ; a town divided along colour lines ; and a family dealing with its history of secrets. At it's core, this collection is about the life of a Cree girl and the places she finds comfort and escape .... Rosanna Deerchild is Cree from South Indian Lake, Manitoba.

Genre
Canadian poetry
Indigenous materials
Publisher (Source)

Canada

Winnipeg, MB, Canada

J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing

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