Waswanipi (Paperback)

“Jean-Yves Soucy’s story and encounter with my Dad provides a charming glimpse into a changing world, for us all.”- Romeo Saganash. It’s 1963, Jean-Yves Soucy is 18 and dreams of being a fire warden scanning the boreal forest from a fire tower. But he ends up at an equipment depot between Val-d’Or and Chibougamau. To his delight, he is located near the Cree community of Wawanipi. With two Cree guides, including a man named William Saganash, he will be canoeing through the lakes and rivers of the region. On each encounter with the Crees, Jean-Yves expects to see a new world. Instead, he meets a different civilization, as different from his own as Chinese civilization. Yet he knows nothing about it. He wrote Waswanipi because Romeo Saganash, son of William, insisted: “You have to write that, Jean-Yves. About your relationship with my father and the others, how you saw the village. You got to see the end of an era.” Provides a Cree-English glossary.

General

Imprint:	Baraka Books
Country of origin:	Canada
Series:	Baraka Nonfiction
Release date:	September 2021
Authors:	Peter McCambridge • Jean Yves Soucy
Dimensions:	203 x 127mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	120
ISBN-13:	978-1-77186-253-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	1-77186-253-X
Barcode:	9781771862530

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