Black Water

<p>A <em>Globe and Mail</em> Top 100 Book of the Year</p><br><Br>A <em>Quill Quire</em> Book of the Year</br><p><Br>A CBC Books Nonfiction Book of the Year</p><br><Br>A <em>Macleans</em> 20 Books You Need to Read this Winter</br><p>An instant classic that demands to be read with your heart open<Br>and with a perspective widened to allow in a whole new understanding of family,<Br>identity and love. Cherie Dimaline</p><p><strong>In this bestselling memoir, a son who grew up away<Br>from his Indigenous culture takes his Cree father on a trip to the family<Br>trapline and finds that revisiting the past not only heals old wounds but<Br>creates a new future</strong></p><p>The son of a Cree father and a white mother, David A.<Br>Robertson grew up with virtually no awareness of his Indigenous roots. His<Br>father, Dulasor Don, as he became knownlived on the trapline in the bush in<Br>Manitoba, only to be transplanted permanently to a house on the reserve, where<Br>he couldnt speak his language, Swampy Cree, in school with his friends unless<Br>in secret. Davids mother, Beverly, grew up in a small Manitoba town that had no<Br>Indigenous people until Don arrived as the new United Church minister. They<Br>married and had three sons, whom they raised unconnected to their Indigenous history.<Br></p><p>David grew up without his fathers teachings or any knowledge<Br>of his early experiences. All he had was blood memory: the pieces of his<Br>identity ingrained in the fabric of his DNA, pieces that he has spent a lifetime<Br>putting together.It has been the journey<Br>of a young man becoming closer to who he is, who his father is and who they are<Br>together, culminating in a trip back to the trapline to reclaim their<Br>connection to the land. </p><p><em>Black Water</em>is a memoirabout intergenerational trauma and<Br>healing, about connection and about how Dons life informed Davids own. Facing<Br>up to a story nearly erased by the designs of history, father and son journey<Br>together back to the trapline at Black Water and through the past to create a<Br>new future.</p><Br><Br><Br><Br><Br><Br><Br><Br><Br><Br><Br><p></p>