Natives in Canada have a disproportionate amount of war service veterans among their numbers. This story picks up the life of a WW#1 amputee we first met in Three Day Road two decades later as he works his trap line and even manages snow shoes with a prosthetic limb. The title would seem to be the Cree word for wolverine. In a few short pages Joseph Boyden hits upon many of the issues facing aboriginal peoples in Canada. The dwindling resources that once supported a traditional lifestyle, inadequate health care, and the depredations of well-meaning priests in the lives of his people.
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