Big Bear / Rudy Wiebe ; with an introduction by John Ralston Saul (Series Editor).
By: Wiebe, Rudy.
Contributor(s): Saul, John Ralston.
Series: Extraordinary Canadians. Publisher: Toronto, ON : Penguin Canada, 2011Edition: 1st ed.Description: 222 p. : cov. ill. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780143167754 (pbk).Subject(s): Big Bear 1825-1888 | Activist -- Biography | Politicians -- Canada -- Biography | Indigenous history -- Biography | Canada -- Biography | Journey of Independence -- Biography | Proficient | C1 (CEFR)Online resources: Publisher's Website. | Check the Ottawa Public Library (OPL) catalog.| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references.
Map of the North-West Territories, 1885
Chapter 1: Buffalo; Guns and Horses
Chapter 2: Plains Cree Boy
Chapter 3: Warrior and Chief
Chapter 4: Come, Talk to Us
Chapter 5: The Rope of Treaty Six
Chapter 6: Last Chief of the Free Plains Cree
Chapter 7: Signing the Treaty
Chapter 8: One United Land
Chapter 9: Taking My Name from Me
Chapter 10: The Wild Young Men
Chapter 11: A Recommendation to Mercy
Chapter 12: The Hills of Sounding Lake
"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." (Publisher's Website)
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