Ted Trindell : Metis witness to the north
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
088978177X
ISBN 13
9780889781771
Category
General Library Collection
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Publication Year
1986
Publisher
Tillacum Library, Canada
Pages
167
Subject
Ted Trindell -- 1900-1981
Tags
Abstract
"The memoirs of the late Metis writer and activist known as Shakespeare of the Slavey. Compiled working from tapes and correspondence."--WorldCat.org.
Description
167 pages ; 21 cm.
Biblio Notes
Contents:
Preface / by Nick Sibbeston --
Introduction / Jean Morissett --
pt. 1. Coming out --
Coming out of the primitive --
Dog eat dog --
pt. 2. Child of the North --
So first of all I was born --
Peter's son's son --
My mother is pure Indian --
I didn't know French or English --
I didn't regret the school --
God and the devil --
My grandmother believed in animals --
pt. III. Roamer of the North --
My dad died --
I made a trip --
Looking for that lump of gold --
Home is wherever you make fire --
First trip to Edmonton --
Life went on and on --
In and out off and on --
Civilization came --
In the crowd to get treaty --
I had appendix trouble --
A man's got to be educated --
He's learned like an animal --
Full swing bush man --
Dogs, toboggan, snowshoes, traps --
Hunting to exit --
A year behind all your life --
Knife, gun, axe, water, fire --
Everything he needs --
Every day I was busy --
That's a campfire --
You don't destroy as a bush man --
You can't live on scenery --
Wolverine ... he's a professional thief --
Chases by bear --
pt. V: Labourer of the north --
All sorts of tools --
Hardships --
A collar waiting for me --
River pilot --
pt. VI. The big gap --
The system --
I take it for food --
Jacques Cartier came --
The club --
Big companies profit from you --
You can onlyl skin an animal once --
They call it civilization --
What sounds crazy to one --
Trouble in civilization --
The sitting duck --
All that enough for everybody --
Business, church, government --
Tricks of the trade --
This last frontier --
Tu mangeras a la sueur de ton front --
pt. VII. Life, it's a routine thing --
One world I've never learned --
For one wizzle --
My life, it's a routine affair --
I'll just pray.
Preface / by Nick Sibbeston --
Introduction / Jean Morissett --
pt. 1. Coming out --
Coming out of the primitive --
Dog eat dog --
pt. 2. Child of the North --
So first of all I was born --
Peter's son's son --
My mother is pure Indian --
I didn't know French or English --
I didn't regret the school --
God and the devil --
My grandmother believed in animals --
pt. III. Roamer of the North --
My dad died --
I made a trip --
Looking for that lump of gold --
Home is wherever you make fire --
First trip to Edmonton --
Life went on and on --
In and out off and on --
Civilization came --
In the crowd to get treaty --
I had appendix trouble --
A man's got to be educated --
He's learned like an animal --
Full swing bush man --
Dogs, toboggan, snowshoes, traps --
Hunting to exit --
A year behind all your life --
Knife, gun, axe, water, fire --
Everything he needs --
Every day I was busy --
That's a campfire --
You don't destroy as a bush man --
You can't live on scenery --
Wolverine ... he's a professional thief --
Chases by bear --
pt. V: Labourer of the north --
All sorts of tools --
Hardships --
A collar waiting for me --
River pilot --
pt. VI. The big gap --
The system --
I take it for food --
Jacques Cartier came --
The club --
Big companies profit from you --
You can onlyl skin an animal once --
They call it civilization --
What sounds crazy to one --
Trouble in civilization --
The sitting duck --
All that enough for everybody --
Business, church, government --
Tricks of the trade --
This last frontier --
Tu mangeras a la sueur de ton front --
pt. VII. Life, it's a routine thing --
One world I've never learned --
For one wizzle --
My life, it's a routine affair --
I'll just pray.
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