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Big Bear (1825–1888) was a Plains Cree chief in Saskatchewan at a time when aboriginals were confronted with the disappearance of the buffalo and waves of European settlers that seemed destined to destroy the Indian way of life. In 1876 he refused to sign Treaty No. 6, until 1882, when his people were starving. Big Bear advocated negotiation over violence, but when the federal government refused to negotiate with aboriginal leaders, some of his followers killed 9 people at Frog Lake in 1885. Big Bear himself was arrested and imprisoned. Rudy Wiebe, author of a Governor General’s Award–winning novel about Big Bear, revisits the life of the eloquent statesman, one of Canada’s most important aboriginal leaders.
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Ruby Wiebe is the celebrated author of 12 books, including A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest, which won the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and The Temptations of Big Bear. He lives in Edmonton.
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Hero of the Cree,
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This review is from: Extraordinary Canadians: Big Bear (Hardcover)
Part of the Extraordinary Canadians series with an introduction from John Ralston Saul. Big Bear was the leader of the Cree during that crucial period of western expansion by the Dominion of Canada under John A. Macdonald. Wiebe's narrative is simple, easy to follow, and does a good job of telling a difficult story of how white Canada tricked the First Nations into signing the Numbered Treaties, and the failed attempts to settle the natives and destroy the buffalo populations. The story also covers the arrest of Big Bear following the Frog Lake massacre and Big Bear's time in a Canadian prison.Big Bear's story is a history of Canada, a leader of the Cree who refused to submit to the unreasonable demands of white Canada. Also interesting is Wiebe's nuance of Metis/Indian relations. Traditional histories paint the two as one and the same, but as more sources become available we now know that Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont did not have the support of First Nations like the Cree. This is a very easy to read and historically accurate narrative of one of Canada's original leaders. An excellent read for anyone interested in Aboriginal and Canadian history.
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Extraordinary Canadians - Big Bear,
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This review is from: Extraordinary Canadians: Big Bear (Hardcover)
This well written chronicle of Big Bear should be taught to all students as part of Canadian history.It clearly shows how biased are our perceptions of the treatment received by First Nations by so-called civilized white settlers; when the integrity and honor was with the First Nations.
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Ahead of his times: Convitions with Actions,
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This should be a 'must read' in our Canadian history classes. Full of intelligent insights with unusual twists to a first nations leader living at an important consequence period in Canadian history. Black Bear's convictions brought him down a very hard road to live and yet his actions have proven how correct his thinking was. (check out how treaty rights are being interpreted by natives and government today and see how Black Bear was so much on tract)
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