Pemmican Eaters, The by Dumont Marilyn

By Dumont Marilyn

A photograph of the Riel Resistance from certainly one of Canada’s preeminent Métis poets

With a identify derived from John A. Macdonald’s moniker for the Métis, The Pemmican Eaters explores Marilyn Dumont’s feel of historical past because the dynamic current. Combining loose verse and metered poems, her most up-to-date assortment goals to recreate a palpable experience of the Riel Resistance interval and evoke the geographical, linguistic/cultural, and political state of affairs of Batoche in this time throughout the eyes of these who skilled the battles, in addition to in the course of the eyes of Gabriel and Madeleine Dumont and Louis Riel.

Included during this assortment are poems concerning the bison, seed beadwork, and the pink River Cart, and a few poems hire components of the Michif language, which, in addition to French and Cree, was once spoken through Dumont’s ancestors. In Dumont’s The Pemmican Eaters, a multiplicity of identities is a strengthening instead of a weakening or diluting strength in culture.

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