TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wiebe, Rudy
AU  - Saul, John Ralston
TI  - Big Bear
SN  - 9780143167754 (pbk)
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Toronto, ON
PB  - Penguin Canada
KW  - Big Bear
KW  - Activist
KW  - Biography
KW  - Politicians
KW  - Canada
KW  - Indigenous history
KW  - Journey of Independence
KW  - Proficient
KW  - C1 (CEFR)
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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