Red River Resistance
Paperback – Illustrated, March 1, 2019
Portage & Main Press · Paperback · March 1, 2019
Echo Desjardins is adjusting to her new home, finding friends, and learning about Métis history.
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- Who it’s for
- A time-slip narrative brings a young reader’s search for belonging alongside Métis history.
- Themes
- Métis history, Land rights, Resistance
- Genres
- Turtle Island Graphic Novels, Historical YA - Canada, YA Historical Comics
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Echo Desjardins is adjusting to her new home, finding friends, and learning about Métis history. She just can’t stop slipping back and forth in time. One ordinary afternoon in class, Echo finds herself transported to the banks of the Red River in the summer of 1869. All is not well in the territory as Canadian surveyors have arrived to change the face of territory, and Métis families, who have lived there for generations, are losing access to their land.
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As the Resistance takes hold, Echo fears for her friends and the future of her people in the Red River Valley.
History in Motion
A time-slip narrative brings a young reader’s search for belonging alongside Métis history.
Come here for
- Echo’s new home and shifting sense of belonging
- Métis history through a young perspective
Expect
- Movement between an ordinary classroom and 1869
- Land, community, and uncertainty at the Red River
Where it sits
| Turtle Island Graphic Novels | 70% |
|---|---|
| Historical YA - Canada | 43% |
| YA Historical Comics | 40% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Coming-of-Age Comics
- Historical YA - Canada
- Indigenous Historical Fiction
- Authors
- Katherena Vermette
- Publisher
- Portage & Main Press
- Published
- March 1, 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Métis history · Land rights · Resistance
- Reading lane
- YA Coming-of-Age Comics