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The winter count /

"Challenging the 'official story' about the role of First Nations in the 1885 Rebellion and the medical commission that sealed Louis Riel’s fate."--Provided by publisher.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leman, Dilys, 1954- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal [Quebec] ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.
Colección:Hugh MacLennan poetry series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Copyright ; Contents; Cypress Hills Recipes; New Recruit; It Is the Desire of Her Majesty to Open Up; A More Suitable Protection; On Being a Home Farm Instructor; For the Love of Drink (1); It is the Desire of Her Majesty to Feed; Words for Buffalo; A Grander Calling: Explanations at Tea; On Conditions in Cypress Hills; Indian Act 1876, Chapter 18, Section 12; Treaty Six Adhesion, Fort Walsh, 1882; The South Saskatchewan River Will Not Recede; Big Bear's Speech; Three Classes of Half-Breeds in the Territories; Why a Clairvoyant Border Collie Is Not Enough.
  • My 1874 Phrenological AnalysisIndictment for the Crime of High Treason; Testimony: Riel's Trial; Rules For Polite Tea; Gilbert Sanders' Diary, 1885; Four Clocks in the Toronto Asylum: Notes on Dr Daniel Clark's "Medical Evidence in Courts of Law"; Reporting on Prisoners; Heads Mounted on Walls; Dear Mother, Please Find Enclosed; Moral Judgment; Just Call Me the Filly from Moosomin; Notes from Interviews; Dear Father, I Am Feeling Much Encouraged; My Sister's Recipe for "Queen Pudding"; Endeavouring to Restore Animation; Remembering St Catharines Peaches in Mason Jars.
  • For the Love of Drink (2)On the Beauty of the Pass; Recipe for "Indian Candy"; It Would Be Well to Have a Spy or Two; What Mr Percy Allen Looks Like; Future Writing Lessons; Indian Act 1876, Chapter 18, Section 62; Toward a Definition of Treason-Felony, Translated for the Cree; Notes On Band Behaviour During Rebellion; Reporting on What Big Bear Said at His Trial; How to Hang Eight Indians (at Once) at Battleford; Ten Steps to L-U-N-A-T-I-C on Walls; The Lunacy Commission; You're a Patient Woman, Mrs Jukes; The Commissioner's Report; To Punish; Four Clocks; Dictionary.
  • On the Double Sources of Typho-Malarial FeverContagion; What Water Looks Like in Dreams; Historical Note and Acknowledgements.