mahikan ka-onot The Poetry of Duncan Mercredi YA-Fiction History of the Holiday

History of the Holiday

Drawing on a Blackfoot creation story and his Cree upbringing

she chain-smokes and drifts into thoughts of their lives so far

the first person he meets is Nanabush

written by Cindy Blackstock and illustrated by Amanda Strong

mahikan ka-onot The Poetry of Duncan Mercredi YA-Fiction History of the Holidaymahikan ka onot by Duncan Mercredi, who was born in Misipawistik (Grand Rapids) Manitoba to a Mtis father and Cree mother; and edited by Warren Cariou, who was born in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan into a family of Mtis and European heritage. is a collection of Duncan Mercredi's poems from 1991 to recent unpublished poems. These poems of life on the land as well as life in the city, vibrant with the rhythms of traditional Cree and Mtis storytelling but