Red River Story
Refugees from the Highland Clearances collide with the embryonic Métis Nation.
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Refugees from the Highland Clearances collide with the embryonic Métis Nation.
When a young métis woman marries “The Chief of All the Halfbreeds,” she inadvertently marries his struggle to keep the Northwest free of colonisers.
Long before multiculturalism was a word, there was a place where Scots Highlanders, Crees, Ojibway, métis, German Swiss, Québécois,Protestants, Catholics and nonChristians got along for fifty years. Until “The Coming of the Canadians.”
A true-as-possible story of Manitoba from the arrival of the first Selkirk Colonists and the birth of the Métis Nation to Manitoba’s complicated entry into Confederation.
An expendable sixteen-year-old sent out to explore the wild lands; a disfigured Oji-Cree girl who turns out to be his lifeline.
A county courthouse/jail held two prisoners: an indentured servant girl and a condemned man bent on driving his jailers crazier than he was.