5/10/2023 0 Comments Sparknotes brother david chariandy![]() ![]() David's mother, Beverly, grew up in a small Manitoba town that had no Indigenous people until Don arrived as the new United Church minister. ![]() ![]() His father, Dulas-or Don, as he became known-lived on the trapline in the bush in Manitoba, only to be transplanted permanently to a house on the reserve, where he couldn't speak his language, Swampy Cree, in school with his friends unless in secret. ![]() Robertson grew up with virtually no awareness of his Indigenous roots. The son of a Cree father and a white mother, David A. In this bestselling memoir, a son who grew up away from his Indigenous culture takes his Cree father on a trip to the family trapline and finds that revisiting the past not only heals old wounds but creates a new future “An instant classic that demands to be read with your heart open and with a perspective widened to allow in a whole new understanding of family, identity and love." -Cherie Dimaline High Plains Book Award for Creative Nonfictionįirst Nations Communities Read Awards (YA/Adult category)Ī Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the YearĪ Maclean's 20 Books You Need to Read this Winter Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction ![]()
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