Waswanipi Paperback / softback
by Peter McCambridge, Jean-Yves Soucy
Part of the Baraka Nonfiction series
Paperback / softback
Description
“Jean-Yves Soucy’s story and encounter with my Dad provides a charming glimpse into a changing world, for us all.”- Romeo Saganash. It’s 1963, Jean-Yves Soucy is 18 and dreams of being a fire warden scanning the boreal forest from a fire tower.
But he ends up at an equipment depot between Val-d’Or and Chibougamau.
To his delight, he is located near the Cree community of Wawanipi.
With two Cree guides, including a man named William Saganash, he will be canoeing through the lakes and rivers of the region. On each encounter with the Crees, Jean-Yves expects to see a new world.
Instead, he meets a different civilization, as different from his own as Chinese civilization.
Yet he knows nothing about it. He wrote Waswanipi because Romeo Saganash, son of William, insisted: “You have to write that, Jean-Yves.
About your relationship with my father and the others, how you saw the village.
You got to see the end of an era.”Provides a Cree-English glossary.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:120 pages
- Publisher:Baraka Books
- Publication Date:30/09/2021
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- ISBN:9781771862530
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:120 pages
- Publisher:Baraka Books
- Publication Date:30/09/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781771862530
