Views From Fort Battleford Memoir Weshoyot Alvitre (Hummingbirds

Weshoyot Alvitre (Hummingbirds

In The Boy in the Treehouse

Leslie Marmon Silko has undertaken a weaving of ideas and lives

this temporary refuge transfixes them

As grandmother and mother return to their home with their precious children

Views From Fort Battleford Memoir Weshoyot Alvitre (HummingbirdsThe myth of the mounties as neutral arbiters between Aboriginal peoples and incoming settlers remains a cornerstone of the western Canadian narrative of a peaceful frontier experience that differs dramatically from its American equivalent. Walter Hildebrandt eviscerates this myth, placing the NWMP and early settlement in an international framework of imperialist plunder and the imposition of colonialist ideology. Fort Battleford, as an architectural