Valley of the Birdtail : An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation (PB) Chippewas Phil Fontaine offers the foreword

Phil Fontaine offers the foreword to this timely collection

along with their twin cousins Makwa and Wàbek

the stories in Red Rooms portray a complex and beautiful urban Indigenous community

and diagrams

Piita Irniq

Valley of the Birdtail : An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation (PB) Chippewas Phil Fontaine offers the forewordA heart rending true story about racial injustice, residential schools and a path forward. Divided by a beautiful valley and 150 years of racism, the Waywayseecappo reserve and the town of Rossburn have been neighbours for nearly as long as Canada has been a country. Their story reflects much of what has gone wrong in relations between Indigenous and non Indigenous Canadians. It also offers, in the end, an uncommon measure of hope. In the town of