Hunter with Harpoon staff pick University of Illinois American Indian

University of Illinois American Indian Studies and the Native American House

On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake

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belong to the American land

this remains the most comprehensive and accurate lexicon available

Hunter with Harpoon staff pick University of Illinois American IndianPublished fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter, Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal environment, Patsauq describes a life in the Canadian Arctic as one that is reliant on