| Edition |
First electronic edition, 2013. |
| Description |
1 online resource (126 pages). |
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data file rda |
| Series |
A volume in the Robert Kroetsch series |
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Robert Kroetsch series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
""Front Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""I Prologue""; ""Tape A""; ""II The Mound-Builders""; ""The work is a plain one""; ""In the Long Knives' country""; ""A Maundy Thursday""; ""Blood-red the sun""; ""Sun-red, the blood or, The sun pushed a huge crimson shoulder above the skyline""; ""Red the sun blood or, She has but half a smoke to live""; ""The red-blood sun or, The sun had scorched its green roofing leaves was sinking""; ""The ordinary red man""; ""Among the valuable things""; ""Entering the lodge of a Wood Cree""; ""Oh, Sun"" |
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""All that remained of the H.B. Co's business at Frog Lake""""Bullets""; ""The curtain drop on the last scene in this grim, emotional drama""; ""Tape B""; ""III That Little Hamlet by the Creek""; ""Solomon says""; ""Eyes""; ""I peeked over the bank of his horrible-looking head and my scalp felt very loose""; ""not the desire of the author of this work to publish""; ""A most unmelodious""; ""Write a cold, matter-of-fact statement of the event""; ""Gathered up a few that were scattered around in the dirt and saved them when no one was looking"" |
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""Without giving expression to sentiments of sorrow""""Had I only the language at my command""; ""That little hamlet by the creek""; ""When one has nothing to write about it is hard to fill up pages""; ""Tape C""; ""IV The Inadvertent Poetry of Major-General Thomas Bland Strange""; ""The Queen is the supreme power in the Realm The message thus being transmitted:-""; ""Our Jingo found himself on the deck of a steamer""; ""Our jingo and B Battery reach the ice cone at Montmorency""; ""Rough Work: Rumour to-night Indians being tampered with""; ""The fibre of the iron had crystallised"" |
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""Rough Work: Endeavouring to secure additional mountain guns""""Not a blade of grass for a hundred miles""; ""Rough Work: The safety and peace in this country will be jeopardized""; ""Jingo's house""; ""Rough Work: If wheat and seed come by boat they will be in time""; ""Jingo's speech at Frog Lake on The Queen's birthday""; ""Rough Work: Some justifiable measure should be made to prevent escape of Riel and following""; ""I fear I should have lost my small army in this very big country""; ""Rough Work: Three french half breeds blundered south""; ""With field-glasses could be detected"" |
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""I have seen miles of territory just south of the line""""Tape D""; ""V The Trial""; ""Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua""; ""And I could not refuse them, I dare not refuse them, because they would have just a likely as not blown my brains out""; ""Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua, Big Bear""; ""According to W.J. Maclean, sworn""; ""Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua, Big Bear, the prisoner""; ""According to Henry R. Halpin, sworn""; ""Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua, Big Bear, the prisoner""; ""And unofficially""; ""Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua, Big Bear, the prisoner, the prisoner in the dock"" |
| Summary |
Poetic exploration of historical records of the Frog Lake Massacre (1885) links past to present. |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Frog Lake Massacre (Alberta : 1885) (OCoLC)fst01754983
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Frog Lake Massacre, Frog Lake, Alta., 1885 -- Poetry.
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Frog Lake Massacre, Frog Lake, Alta., 1885 -- Historiography -- Poetry.
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Cree Indians -- History -- Poetry.
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FICTION -- General.
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Cree Indians. (OCoLC)fst00882643
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Historiography. (OCoLC)fst00958221
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Alberta -- Frog Lake.
(OCoLC)fst01291439
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| Chronological Term |
1885
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| Genre/Form |
Alberta author.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| Other Form: |
Zits, Paul William. Massacre Street./. First edition. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press, 2013. ©2013 Robert Kroetsch series Robert Kroetsch series (CaOONL)20139010068 (OCoLC)816160133 |
| ISBN |
9780888648198 (electronic book) |
| Music No. |
446383 CaOOCEL |
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