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Fort Chipewyan Homecoming: A Journey to Native Canada
Twelve-year-old Matthew Dunn learns about the traditional ways of his Chipewyan, Cree, and Mâetis ancestors on a trip to Fort Chipewyan, in Alberta, Canada.
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First published December 1, 1996
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December 21, 2020
A very good treatment of this subject.
December 31, 2012
A melding of a fiction and non-fiction, this book chronicles a trip to the reserve by a young Metis boy. The readers follow our young hero as he explores the traditions of the reserve, hunting, fishing, crafts, celebrations.
This book wants to document native life, to insert natives into the narrative. The problem is with all its earnestness, it fails in one of the most important parts of writing; to be interesting. Fort Chipewyan Homecoming is document of a way of life that is threatened, but it will be never more than that. It fails to engage the reader in any meaningful way and that means that it will never have the broad ranging impact the author wants it to have.
This book wants to document native life, to insert natives into the narrative. The problem is with all its earnestness, it fails in one of the most important parts of writing; to be interesting. Fort Chipewyan Homecoming is document of a way of life that is threatened, but it will be never more than that. It fails to engage the reader in any meaningful way and that means that it will never have the broad ranging impact the author wants it to have.
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