Daughters of the Deer by Danielle Daniel

Daughters of the Deer by Danielle Daniel

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In this haunting and groundbreaking historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of women in the Algonquin territories of the 1600s, a story inspired by her family's ancestral link to a young girl who was murdered by French settlers.

1657. Marie, a gifted healer of the Deer Clan, does not want to marry the green-eyed soldier from France who has asked for her hand. But her people are threatened by disease and starvation and need help against the Iroquois and their English allies if they are to survive. When her chief begs her to accept the white man's proposal, she cannot refuse him, and sheds her deerskin tunic for a borrowed blue wedding dress to become Pierre's bride.  
            1675. Jeanne, Marie's oldest child, is seventeen, neither white nor Algonquin, caught between worlds. Caught by her own desires, too. Her heart belongs to a girl named Josephine, but soon her father will have to find her a husband or be forced to pay a hefty fine to the French crown. Among her mother's people, Jeanne would have been considered blessed, her two-spirited nature a sign of special wisdom. To the settlers of New France, and even to her own father, Jeanne is unnatural, sinful--a woman to be shunned, beaten, and much worse.
     With the poignant, unforgettable story of Marie and Jeanne, Danielle Daniel reaches back through the centuries to touch the very origin of the long history of violence against Indigenous women and the deliberate, equally violent disruption of First Nations cultures. 
 

Daniel, Danielle: -

DANIELLE DANIEL is an award-winning children's book author and illustrator of Algonquin, French and Scottish descent. Her picture books include Once in a Blue Moon and Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox, winner of the Marilyn Baillie Award, shortlisted for the 2017 Blue Spruce Award, First Nation Communities Reads Award, a 2019 Prix Peuplier finalist for the French edition, and a Best 100 title at the New York Public Library. She holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia and lives in the traditional territory of the Atikameksheng Anishnaabeg (Sudbury, Ontario).

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ISBN 13	9780735282087
ISBN 10	0735282080
Title	Daughters of the Deer
Author	Danielle Daniel
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House Canada
Year published	2022-03-08
Number of pages	344
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.