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Daughters of the deer / Danielle Daniel.
In this haunting and groundbreaking historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of women in the Algonquin territories of the 1600s, a story inspired by her family's ancestral link to a young girl who was murdered by French settlers.
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- ISBN: 9780735282087 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 327 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Random House Canada, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
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| Subject: | Indigenous women > Violence against > Fiction. Indigenous peoples > North America > Colonization > Fiction. Seventeenth century > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
| Topic Heading: | BIPOC. Indigenous. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Allard Branch | FIC DAN (Text) | 37842000803967 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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In this haunting and groundbreaking historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of women in the Algonquin territories of the 1600s, a story inspired by her familyâs ancestral link to a young girl who was murdered by French settlers.
1657. Marie, a gifted healer of the Deer Clan, does not want to marry the green-eyed soldier from France who has asked for her hand. But her people are threatened by disease and starvation and need help against the Iroquois and their English allies if they are to survive. When her chief begs her to accept the white manâs proposal, she cannot refuse him, and sheds her deerskin tunic for a borrowed blue wedding dress to become Pierreâs bride. Â
           1675. Jeanne, Marieâs oldest child, is seventeen, neither white nor Algonquin, caught between worlds. Caught by her own desires, too. Her heart belongs to a girl named Josephine, but soon her father will have to find her a husband or be forced to pay a hefty fine to the French crown. Among her motherâs people, Jeanne would have been considered blessed, her two-spirited nature a sign of special wisdom. To the settlers of New France, and even to her own father, Jeanne is unnatural, sinfulâa woman to be shunned, beaten, and much worse.
   With the poignant, unforgettable story of Marie and Jeanne, Danielle Daniel reaches back through the centuries to touch the very origin of the long history of violence against Indigenous women and the deliberate, equally violent disruption of First Nations cultures.Â
