Black Water Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory

David A. Robertson

eBook - 2020

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the YearA Quill & Quire Book of the YearA CBC Books Nonfiction Book of the YearA Maclean's 20 Books You Need to Read this Winter"An instant classic that demands to be read with your heart openand with a perspective widened to allow in a whole new understanding of family,identity and love." —Cherie DimalineIn this bestselling memoir, a son who grew up awayfrom his Indigenous culture takes his Cree father on a trip to the familytrapline and finds that revisiting the past not only heals old wounds butcreates a new futureThe son of a Cree father and a white mother, David A.Robertson grew up with virtually no awareness of his Indigenous roots. Hisfather, Dulas—or Don, as he became known—l...ived on the trapline in the bush inManitoba, only to be transplanted permanently to a house on the reserve, wherehe couldn't speak his language, Swampy Cree, in... more