
Leah Marie Dorion's My First Métis Lobstick takes young readers back to Canada's fur trade era by focusing on a Métis family's preparations for a lobstick celebration and feast in the boreal forest. Through the eyes of a young boy, we see how important lobstick making and ceremony was to the Métis community. From the Great Lakes to the present-day Northwest Territories, lobstick poles--important cultural and geographical markers, which merged Cree, Ojibway, and French-Canadian traditions--dotted the landscape of our great northern boreal forest. This little known aspect of Métis history vividly comes to life through Leah Marie Dorion's crisp prose and stunning gallery-quality artwork.
Page Count:
74
Publication Date:
2014-01-01
ISBN-10:
1926795172
ISBN-13:
9781926795171
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