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Tracking the Caribou Queen: Memoir of a Settler Girlhood

Tracking the Caribou Queen: Memoir of a Settler Girlhood

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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. Macphe...

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Product ID:	9781774390610
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	Tracking the Caribou Queen
Subtitle:	Memoir of a Settler Girlhood
Authors:	Author: Margaret Macpherson
Page Count:	224
Subjects:	Memoirs, Memoirs
Description:	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.
Imprint Name:	NeWest Press
Publisher Name:	NeWest Press
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2022-10-01

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Weight	362 g
Dimensions	140 × 215 × 20 mm