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I recognize that Friday June 21st is National Indigenous Day. I so appreciate the insight given to me by Gordon Gill and his family, and others who helped with suggestions to better know the Indigenous and Métis history of northern Alberta and the NWT. I hope my expression of that story in A Métis Man's Dream; From Traplines to Tugboats in Canada's North may help at least one person in pursuing their own Truth and Reconciliation. I know it has helped me on my journey.
Just a reminder that A Métis Man's Dream is now out on audiobook, through Amazon, Audible and Apple. Good reviews from as far north as Fort MacPherson, NWT and as far south as Santa Clara, California!
I love the sight and sound and feeling of flowing water, especially in smaller rivers and creeks where fish leap for the sky and shadows hold the gurgling riffles close in to shore.
In my writing, rivers are always close at hand. A Métis Man's Dream traces Gordon’s physical meanderings on the rivers, lakes and ocean of Canada's north but adds a figurative element, too; his life driven along by a sometimes silent, sometimes raging current, meeting ebbs and flows, rocks and barriers and the storms and high water that might confound any traveller. My second book also reflects the power and metaphor of moving water, in this case Alberta's Red Deer River. I seek to tell of the river's rugged, and unique natural and geologic setting, from Banff National Park to the Saskatchewan border and to explore its historical and personal lessons through the eyes of a lawyer, city dweller, learner and fifth generation descendant of prominent western settlers. I leave you, for now, with this description: "Gower's stories and memories follow the call of running water in his search for both white and Indigenous history, meaning through nature, and wisdom of time and place in the land of the dinosaurs." More to come.... |
AuthorNeil Gower is a writer living in Edmonton, AB. Archives
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