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Author Zits, Paul William, author

Title Massacre Street / Paul Zits
Edition First electronic edition, 2013
Published Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (126 pages)
Series A volume in the Robert Kroetsch series
Robert Kroetsch series.
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
All that remained of the H.B. Co's business at Frog LakeBullets -- 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
Without giving expression to sentiments of sorrowHad 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
Rough Work: Endeavouring to secure additional mountain gunsNot 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
I have seen miles of territory just south of the lineTape 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
Analysis Canadian Literature
Historiography
Poetry
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Subject Frog Lake Massacre, Frog Lake, Alta., 1885 -- Poetry
Frog Lake Massacre, Frog Lake, Alta., 1885 -- Historiography -- Poetry
Cree Indians -- History -- Poetry
FICTION -- General.
Cree Indians
Historiography
Alberta -- Frog Lake
Genre/Form History
Poetry
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780888648198
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