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Macpherson, Margaret (Margaret A.)
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Macpherson, Margaret (Margaret A.)
Macpherson, Margaret (Margaret A.) -- Childhood and youth.
Authors, Canadian -- Biography.
Editors -- Canada -- Biography.
First Nations -- Northwest Territories.
Indigenous peoples -- Northwest Territories.
Whites -- Relations with First Nations.
Yellowknife (N.W.T.) -- Biography.
Yellowknife (N.W.T.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Yellowknife (N.W.T.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
Canada -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Canada -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
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Macpherson, Margaret (Margaret A.)
Macpherson, Margaret (Margaret A.)
Macpherson, Margaret (Margaret A.) -- Childhood and youth.
Authors, Canadian -- Biography.
Editors -- Canada -- Biography.
First Nations -- Northwest Territories.
Indigenous peoples -- Northwest Territories.
Whites -- Relations with First Nations.
Yellowknife (N.W.T.) -- Biography.
Yellowknife (N.W.T.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Yellowknife (N.W.T.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
Canada -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Canada -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
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Tracking the Caribou Queen : memoir of a settler girlhood / Margaret Macpherson.
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Macpherson, Margaret (Margaret A.)
NeWest Press, 2022.
Call #:
819
.8603
M172t
Subjects
Macpherson, Margaret (Margaret A.)
Macpherson, Margaret (Margaret A.) -- Childhood and youth.
Authors, Canadian -- Biography.
Editors -- Canada -- Biography.
First Nations -- Northwest Territories.
Indigenous peoples -- Northwest Territories.
Whites -- Relations with First Nations.
Yellowknife (N.W.T.) -- Biography.
Yellowknife (N.W.T.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Yellowknife (N.W.T.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
Canada -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Canada -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781774390610 (trade pbk)
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291 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"In this challenging memoir about her formative years in Yellowknife in the '60s and '70s, author Margaret Macpherson lays bare her own white privilege, her multitude of unexamined microaggressions, and how her childhood was shaped by the colonialism and systemic racism that continues today. Macpherson's father, first a principal and later a federal government administrator, oversaw education in the NWT, including the high school Margaret attended with its attached hostel: a residential facility mostly housing Indigenous children. Ringing with damning and painful truths, this bittersweet telling invites white readers to examine their own personal histories in order to begin to right relations with the Indigenous Peoples on whose land they live. Tracking the Caribou Queen is beautifully crafted to a purpose: poetic language and narrative threads dissect the trope that persisted through her girlhood, that of the Caribou Queen, a woman who seemed to embody extreme and contradictory stereotypes of Indigeneity. Here, Macpherson is not striving for a tidy ideal of 'reconciliation'; what she is working towards is much messier, more complex and ambivalent and, ultimately, more equitable."--Publisher.
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Autobiographies.
Memoirs.
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