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With a title derived from John A. Macdonald's moniker for the Mtis, The Pemmican Eaters explores Marilyn Dumont's sense of history as the dynamic present. Combining free verse and metered poems, her latest collection aims to recreate a palpable sense of the Riel Resistance period and evoke the geographical, linguistic/cultural and political situation of Batoche during this time through the eyes of those who experienced the battles, as well as through the eyes of Gabriel and Madeleine Dumont and Louis Riel.
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with second sight, she pushes
sitting close to light
falling through a window
glancing down a needle
along a thread
to the centre
of a bright bead
is her belief
in petal, stem, and leaf
she directs a long thin needle
picks one tiny seed
bead, after seed
bead, after seed
from a saucer
until she has drawn a long white string with
her fingers
at the end of a needle
her fingers, nudge their seeds side by side
looping their weight into a petal
laid flat against the fabric nap
each seed pressed
against the cloth by the thumb and forefinger of her left hand
while thumb and forefinger of her right
plumb the unseen side of the fabric with
another needle and thread, and
with second sight, she pushes
the needle and thread up precisely
where her eye wants to meet it
on the surface of the fabric
then down
between each bead
by seed bead
seed
over and over
repeated
this gesture petal
takes patient shape
o
the bead’s colour makes no sound
but it is cranberry, moss, and fireweed
it is also wolf willow, sap, and sawdust
as well as Chickadee, Magpie, and Jackrabbit
a bead is not simply dark blue
but Saskatoon blue
it’s not merely black,
but beaver head black
and it’s not just a seed bead
it’s a number 11 pearlized bead
or a number 10 two-cut glass bead
or a number 8 French white heart
o
the fabric weightles...
Table of contents
- The Pemmican Eaters
- Previous Works
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- Our Gabriel
- Otipemisiwak
- Letter to Sir John A. Macdonald
- Notre Frères
- Li bufloo
- How to Make Pemmican
- I wanted to treat them as we would have treated buffalo
- Les Animaux
- these are wintering words
- What we don’t need
- October 1869: to smoke their pipes and sing their songs
- Lines
- Not a single blade
- Ode to the Red River Cart
- Fiddle bids us
- Just tell me when the fiddler arrives
- She worries beads
- with second sight, she pushes
- Sky berry and water berry
- Beads the right size and colour
- the land she came from
- The black mare
- you are riding for the border tonight
- Red River framed houses & dust
- To a fair country
- what’s left
- The Showman & Show Indians
- rich in horses
- Requiem for Louis Riel
- Post Battle of Batoche: Gatling Gun
- Our Prince
- Louis’ last vision
- End Notes
- About the Author
- Copyright