PreviewsKatherena Vermette
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Northwest Resistance
Katherena Vermette, Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator), Donovan Yaciuk (Illustrator)
Echo Desjardins continues to slip back in time, learning first-hand about Métis history. This time, she travels to Batoche at the time when the Canadian government is ignoring the petitions of the Métis people, who enlist Louis Riel to help them.
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real ones
a novel
Katherena Vermette
June, an academic, and her sister, Lyn, a pottery artist, are real NDNs – Michif on their father’s side – but their mother, the very white Renee, has been establishing her art career under the name Raven Bearclaw, and is called out as a “pretendian,” pulling June and Lyn into a messy online backlash and unresolved childhood trauma, in this probing and ultimately hopeful novel.
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Road Allowance Era
Vol 4, A Girl Called Echo
Katherena Vermette, Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator), Donovan Yaciuk (Illustrator)
In this fourth and final instalment of Echo’s time-travelling story of strength and resilience, she witnesses many Métis people – cheated out of their right to land – settle on road allowances and railway land. Members of her family make their way to Rooster Town, on the southwest edges of Winnipeg.
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The Girl and the Wolf
Katherena Vermette, Julie Flett (Illustrator)
In this charming twist on the traditional fairy tale, when the little girl in the red dress loses her mother in the forest, the big gray wolf with the white teeth is neither scary nor dangerous.
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The Strangers
Katherena Vermette
The Strangers are Phoenix, who while incarcerated gives birth to a baby she’ll never see; her younger sister, Cedar, who is finally out of the foster care system and living with her dad and his new family; Elsie, their mother, who is struggling with her addictions; and Margaret, Elsie’s distant mother. The women’s lives diverge and reconnect, as they strive to emerge from the darkness of their past.
