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Kiss of the Fur Queen

By: Highway, Tomson

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Doubleday: January 1998

Seller ID: 59070

ISBN: 0385256523

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In the 1950s, Abraham Okimasis becomes the first Indian ever to win the Trapper's Festival Dog Sled Race and, as tradition dictates, he is kissed by the festival's beautiful Fur Queen. Nine months afterward, Abraham's wife Mariesis gives birth to their son, Champion, in a tent on a trapline in snowy northern Manitoba. Later, three-year-old Champion watches his brother Ooneemeetoo come into the world in the same tent.
The boys grow up in a magical Cree Garden of Eden: stars, fish and caribou are their playmates; canoes and dogsleds transport their nomadic family. Joy and raucous laughter ro...
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Kiss of the Fur Queen

By: Highway, Tomson

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Anchor Canada: January 1999

Seller ID: 59083

ISBN: 0385258801

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Born into a magical Cree world in snowy northern Manitoba, Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis are all too soon torn from their family and thrust into the hostile world of a Catholic residential school. Their language is forbidden, their names are changed to Jeremiah and Gabriel, and both boys are abused by priests.

As young men, estranged from their own people and alienated from the culture imposed upon them, the Okimasis brothers fight to survive. Wherever they go, the Fur Queen--a wily, shape-shifting trickster--watches over them with a protective eye. For Jeremiah and Gabriel are destine...
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Kiss of the Fur Queen

By: Highway, Tomson

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Anchor Canada: January 1999

Seller ID: 61073

ISBN: 0385258801

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing

By: Highway, Tomson

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Fifth House Books: October 1989

Seller ID: 63254

ISBN: 0920079555

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Nominee, Governor General's Literary Award for Drama Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing tells another story of the mythical Wasaychigan Hill Indian Reserve, also the setting for Tomson Highway's award winning play The Rez Sisters. Wherein The Rez Sisters the focus was on seven Wasy women and the game of bingo, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing features seven Wasy men and the game of hockey. It is a fast-paced story of tragedy, comedy, and hope.
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Author:Highway, Tomson

Kiss of the Fur Queen

Kiss of the Fur Queen

Kiss of the Fur Queen

Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing