alterNatives Plains Cree Inuit & Métis Young Adult

Inuit & Métis Young Adult Literature Honour Book in the English Language Category

Dickason identifies key people such as Pontiac

Drawing on archival documents

In the latter half of the century

and a glossary of Cree terms used throughout the stories

alterNatives Plains Cree Inuit & Métis Young AdultalterNatives: A Play by Ojibwe playwright sets the stage with a very liberal contemporary couple, Angel, an urban Native science fiction writer, and Colleen, a non practising Jewish intellectual who teaches Native literature as the pair hosts a dinner party. The guests at this little sitcom soiree are couples that represent what by now have become the cliched extremes of both societies: Angel's former radical Native activist buddies and Colleen's