Gabriel Dumont

How many times have you been out somewhere and seen someone that dresses differently than you, or someone covered in tattoos, and immediately made a judgment on what kind of he or she is? Maybe you pulled up next to a car blasting music that you do not like, and again made a judgment about that person simply because of the type of music he or she was listening to? Even more disappointing is when judgment is made simply because someone is a different race. Judging someone without even knowing…

Reflections of Judgment Through Fiction When reading through various works of fiction, we sometimes come across material that almost speaks directly to us, or may even describe our current situation or feelings. Although the works are truly fictitious, the inspiration for these stories comes from deep within the mind of the author, who is human, and human emotions tend to bleed through fiction. This is how we can find a surreal connection to so many stories that never actually occurred. Some…

The secularization of the missions was created during the time when the Spanish had begun to have a fond interest on the new found Californian land. Most importantly, the Spaniards used the missions as a method to impose their imperial control over Indians. The secularization of the missions was significantly in part to convert the Indians to Catholicism and teach them about the European traditions. The secularization of the California missions was a steady and elongated process. In the readings…

The story of Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont by Joseph Boyden tells the tale of these two great men and the rebellion they lead. Riel is the more intellectual of the two while Dumont, a buffalo hunter, is a man of action. The problems these two men touched on were injustice, violence, and cultural prejudice during the economic and political changes of Canada. The Metis, along with other Indians, are regarded as people not worthy of respect or justice. Gabriel Dumont, the Metis leader, realizes…

“The great white way” of standard English, Dumont writes in “The Devil’s Language,” “has measured, judged and assessed me.” What’s ironic is that a number of the poems stay within the tidy confines of its “picket fence sentences/ and manicured paragraphs”; without a doubt, Dumont can talk that talk. She experiments with several syntactic styles, including the slangy, offhand colloquial and the honed lyric. She gives narrative prose poems a whirl too. But the most memorable poems are those in…

Prairie Terms The Metis: The Metis are indigenous people of North America. They are mixed-race descendants of First Nation women and French or British men. The Metis people believed they were being treated unfairly and they fled west and began to settle across the prairies. They settled in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Manitoba Act of 1870: The Manitoba act is an act that created the province of Manitoba. The act stated that Metis lands would be protected but all other lands were the property of…

North-West Resistance Monument Public History Statement in Queen’s Park. Summary of the conflict The North-West Resistance was a ferocious five-month rebellion that was started in the spring of 1985 by Metis militants and their allies of Aboriginal background against the Canadian government in the north-West territories. It was sparked off due to the fear and insecurity of rapid changes in the North-West Territories which threatened the existence and livelihoods of the Metis, Aborigines and the…

While there were many conflicts that occurred due to the wording of the Royal Proclamation in relation to aboriginals, the Métis people were subject to a large issue: the fact that they were not considered in the Proclamation at all. They were not considered aboriginals, even though their origin says otherwise. This led to many battles and hardship as the Métis tried to fight for their political and legal rights, and largely their land rights as Aboriginals. Métis Nations developed in the 1800s…

novels Three Day Road (2005), Through Black Spruce (2008), The Orenda in (2013), and his most resent Wenjack in (2016), three Non-fiction books, From Mushkegowuk to New Orleans: A Mixed Blood Highway (2008), Extraordinary Canadians: Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont (2010), and Kwe: Standing With Our Sisters (2014), and one short story “Born With a Tooth” (2001). Joseph Boyden’s writing style in Through Black Spruce is very different as it is told by two different narrators who alternate telling…