Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire : French-Indigenous Relations and the Rise of the Métis in the Hudson Bay Watershed Maori This teen novel

This teen novel

Injustice is not simply something from the distant past

The closing of the schools coincided with a growing number of convictions of former staff members on charges of sexually abusing students

The family speaks the Dehcho language and Sheyenne is learning the Dene Yatie language from her grandparents and in language class at the local school

she can't wait to travel out on the land with her grandfather to hunt for wild eggs

Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire : French-Indigenous Relations and the Rise of the Métis in the Hudson Bay Watershed Maori This teen novelScott Berthelette is Red River Mtis, a member of the Manitoba Mtis Federation and author of Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire : French Indigenous Relations and the Rise of the Mtis in the Hudson Bay Watershed. The fur trade was the heart of the French empire in early North America. The French Canadian (Canadien) men who traversed the vast hinterlands of the Hudson Bay watershed, trading for furs from Indigenous trappers and hunters, were its cornerstone.