A picture of the Riel Resistance from one of Canada’s preeminent Métis poetsWith a title derived from John A. Macdonald’s moniker for the Métis, The Pemmican EatersIncluded in this collection are poems about the bison, seed beadwork, and the Red River Cart, and some poems employ elements of the Michif language, which, along with French and Cree, was spoken by Dumont’s ancestors. In Dumont’s The Pemmican Eaters, a multiplicity of identities is a strengthening rather than a weakening or diluting force in culture.
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