Metis: Mixed Blood Stories - Softcover

Ponton, Lynn E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865347913 ISBN 13: 9780865347915

Publisher: Sunstone Press, 2011

Synopsis

The Métis are the descendants of Cree and Assiniboine women who joined with French and Scottish men to raise children and shape a hybrid culture in the heart of Canada. In "Métis, Mixed Blood Stories," four generations of adolescents come of age during their sixteenth year. Together their voices tell the story of one family and of a people. Matriarch Angeline describes her ride on the last great buffalo hunt of the 1860s and her relationship with charismatic Métis leader Louie Riel. Her grandson, Gilles, relates his escape from a Chicago orphanage and his fight to stay out of reservation school. Gilles's daughter, Elisabeth, fights to protect the rights of native youth in the violent 1968 U.S. Democratic Convention. The novel closes with the vibrant voice with which it begins, that of great-granddaughter Annie, whose creativity as a young author and filmmaker will ensure that the legacy of their culture lives on.

About this title

About the Author

Lynn Ponton is the author of two previous books of nonfiction, "The Romance of Risk: Why Teenagers Do the Things They Do" and "The Sex Lives of Teenagers: Revealing the Secret World of Adolescent Boys and Girls." She has been a columnist for Salon.com and has published widely in numerous magazines, newspapers, and journals. A practicing psychoanalyst, she is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. This is her first work of fiction.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sunstone Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865347913
• ISBN 13: 9780865347915
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180