a beautiful rebellion Alaska the Medicine Wheel framework

the Medicine Wheel framework

More than two dozen stories of Indigenous resistance to the privatization and allotment of Indigenous landsLand privatization has been a longstanding and ongoing settler colonial process separating Indigenous peoples from their traditional homelands

a Cree woman who lives on the streets

Talaga demonstrates the extent to which Indigenous children continue to live under the full weight of colonial history

his early warfare experience and his diplomatic experiences are identified

a beautiful rebellion Alaska the Medicine Wheel frameworkRita Bouvier is a Mtis writer and educator from Saskatchewan. These poems speak with a fierce tenderness of many aspects of the poets life: a childhood spent on the banks of the Churchill River, the death of a beloved one, the struggle to try to find forgiveness for wrongs done to her people and the weariness of trying to redress those wrongs. a beautiful rebellion reaches one hand back to Louis Riel and one hand ahead to future Mtis generations.