The Temptations of Big Bear (New Canadian Library)
By Rudy Wiebe.
Description
“What can that mean, I and my family will have a ‘reserve of one square mile’?”So asks Big Bear of Governor Morris, come to impose a square treaty on the round, buffalo-covered world of the Plains Cree. As the buffalo vanish and the tension builds to the second Riel Rebellion, Big Bear alone of the prairie chiefs keeps up pressure for a better treaty by refusing to choose a reserve. He argues, “If any man has the right to put a rope around another man’s neck, some day someone will get choked.”It is Big Bear’s story – and the story of Wan...
ISBN(s)
0771034547, 9780771034541
