Poundmaker

Hardcover with dust jacket, 301 pages, 5.5x8.5 in - 14x21.5 cm.

Brodart-wrapped jacket was once taped down at flaps – tape residue on boards, endpapers discolored. Jacket back lightly soiled, jacket spine sunned. Ffep., title page, and p.4 stamped by previous owner.

Calgary author Norma Sluman's three historical novels are set on the Canadian prairies and each deal with settler-Indigenous relations, struggles, and conflicts leading up to the 1885 North-West Resistance. In this work, she recreates the life of Poundmaker (c.1842-1886), a Plains Cree chief who lived near Battleford. Combining historical facts with dramatized details, Sluman tells the story of Poundmaker’s adult life from his adoption by Crowfoot through his presence at the signing of Treaty 6 to his encounters with Louis Riel, role in the North-West Resistance, and 1886 death. Throughout, the volume offers a sympathetic imagining of the cultural forces at play between between Indigenous and settler communities as well as within First Nations groups.