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Extraordinary Canadians: Big Bear
Langbeschreibung
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.
Ruby Wiebe is the celebrated author of 12 books, including A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest, which won the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and The Temptations of Big Bear. He lives in Edmonton.
ISBN-13:
9780143172703
Veröffentl:
2008
Seiten:
240
Autor:
Rudy Wiebe
Serie:
Extraordinary Canadians
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
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