Lake of the prairies: a story of belonging
Canadian fiction, Award winning non-fiction, Biography, Literature biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
Summary
Cariou's memoir on growing up in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, where he witnessed the discrimination, anger and fear directed at the town's Cree and Métis populations by the European settlers. While he has absorbed these prejudices as his own, he is… forced to confront the politics of race as an adult. Then, he discovers secrets that his family had kept hidden for generations, secrets that would alter forever his sense of identity and belonging in Meadow Lake. Winner of the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize of the 2003 Writers' Trust of Canada Awards. 2002.