LEADER 05568nam 2200661 450 001 9910818896803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7735-9640-2 010 $a0-7735-9639-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773596399 035 $a(CKB)2550000001341800 035 $a(EBL)3332807 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001457294 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11822856 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001457294 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11441298 035 $a(PQKB)11367092 035 $a(OCoLC)1071994768$z(OCoLC)879516308$z(OCoLC)961576518$z(OCoLC)962610166 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3332807 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10907166 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL634387 035 $a(OCoLC)879516308 035 $a(DE-B1597)654510 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773596399 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/w4cz66 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3332807 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001341800 100 $a20140820h20142014 uy p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe winter count /$fDilys Leman 210 1$aMontre?al, Que?bec :$cMcGill-Queen's University Press,$d2014. 210 4$d©2014 215 $a1 online resource (135 p.) 225 1 $aHugh MacLennan Poetry Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7735-4413-5 311 $a1-322-03136-3 327 $a""Cover""; ""Copyright ""; ""Contents""; ""Cypress Hills Recipes""; ""New Recruit""; ""It Is the Desire of Her Majesty to Open Up""; ""A More Suitable Protection""; ""On Being a Home Farm Instructor""; ""For the Love of Drink (1)""; ""It is the Desire of Her Majesty to Feed""; ""Words for Buffalo""; ""A Grander Calling: Explanations at Tea""; ""On Conditions in Cypress Hills""; ""Indian Act 1876, Chapter 18, Section 12""; ""Treaty Six Adhesion, Fort Walsh, 1882""; ""The South Saskatchewan River Will Not Recede""; ""Big Beara???s Speech""; ""Three Classes of Half-Breeds in the Territories"" 327 $a""Why a Clairvoyant Border Collie Is Not Enough""""My 1874 Phrenological Analysis""; ""Indictment for the Crime of High Treason""; ""Testimony: Riela???s Trial""; ""Rules For Polite Tea""; ""Gilbert Sandersa??? Diary, 1885""; ""Four Clocks in the Toronto Asylum: Notes on Dr Daniel Clarka???s a???Medical Evidence in Courts of Lawa???""; ""Reporting on Prisoners""; ""Heads Mounted on Walls""; ""Dear Mother, Please Find Enclosed""; ""Moral Judgment""; ""Just Call Me the Filly from Moosomin""; ""Notes from Interviews""; ""Dear Father, I Am Feeling Much Encouraged"" 327 $a""My Sistera???s Recipe for a???Queen Puddinga???""""Endeavouring to Restore Animation""; ""Remembering St Catharines Peaches in Mason Jars""; ""For the Love of Drink (2)""; ""On the Beauty of the Pass""; ""Recipe for a???Indian Candya???""; ""It Would Be Well to Have a Spy or Two""; ""What Mr Percy Allen Looks Like""; ""Future Writing Lessons""; ""Indian Act 1876, Chapter 18, Section 62""; ""Toward a Definition of Treason-Felony, Translated for the Cree""; ""Notes On Band Behaviour During Rebellion""; ""Reporting on What Big Bear Said at His Trial"" 327 $a""How to Hang Eight Indians (at Once) at Battleford""""Ten Steps to L-U-N-A-T-I-C on Walls""; ""The Lunacy Commission""; ""Youa???re a Patient Woman, Mrs Jukes""; ""The Commissionera???s Report""; ""To Punish""; ""Four Clocks""; ""Dictionary""; ""On the Double Sources of Typho-Malarial Fever""; ""Contagion""; ""What Water Looks Like in Dreams""; ""Historical Note and Acknowledgements"" 330 $aAlthough relatively few First Nations joined the 1885 Métis insurgence, the Canadian government reacted punitively, instituting draconian "Indian" policies whose ill-effects continue to resonate today. The Winter Count traces these developments alongside another narrative - the debate over the sanity of Métis leader Louis Riel. Dilys Leman weaves original poems and reconstituted archival texts, including medical reports, diaries, treaties, recipes, even a phrenological analysis, to create a montage that both presents and disrupts official history. Her narrative questions politically expedient myths that First Nations were allies of the Métis, would rise again in greater numbers, and needed to be scrupulously controlled to secure the opening of the West. Leman evokes the voices of historical and imagined characters to convey a political landscape teetering into lunacy and a government obsessed with its own vision of nation-building. We hear a bureaucrat extol the merits of the pass system, a court interpreter's ludicrous translation of treason felony into Cree, and Dr Augustus Jukes agonizing about his role on the secret medical commission tasked with reassessing Riel?s sanity, which would determine if he could be executed. The Winter Count is a cautionary tale about moral responsibility. As Leman laments, our failure to be accountable human beings will surely haunt us: "Laudable pus / Political speeches / This water / brought too late / to a boil / Lance and forceps / rattling / their pot" 410 0$aHugh MacLennan poetry series. 606 $aIndigenous peoples$zCanada$xGovernment relations$vPoetry 615 0$aIndigenous peoples$xGovernment relations 676 $a811.54 700 $aLeman$b Dilys$01690053 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818896803321 996 $aThe winter count$94065539 997 $aUNINA