WINNIPEG–In jail, awaiting the hangman’s noose for high treason, Metis leader Louis Riel borrowed a pen and paper and wrote several short poems about his religious and political convictions. More than ...
Marilyn Dumont, celebrated Métis poet and author of A Really Good Brown Girl, which won the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, returns to her roots with The Pemmican Eaters. Though other books have ...