The winter count

Leman, Dilys 1954- (Author).

Summary: "Dilys Leman weaves original poems and reconstituted archival texts, including medical reports, diaries, treaties, recipes, even a phrenological analysis, to create a montage that both presents and disrupts official history. ... The Winter Count is a cautionary tale about moral responsibility." --back cover

Record details

ISBN: 9780773544130 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
vi, 128 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Cypress Hills recipes -- New recruit -- It is the desire of her majesty to open up -- A more suitable protection -- On being a home farm instructor -- For the love of drink (1) -- It is the desire of her majesty to feed -- Words for buffalo -- A grander calling: explanations at tea -- On conditions in Cypress Hills -- Indian Act 1876, Chapter 18, Section 12 -- Treaty six adhesion, Fort Walsh, 1882 -- The South Saskatchewan River will not recede -- Big bear's speech -- Three classes of half-breeds in the territories -- Why a clairvoyant border collie is not enough -- My 1874 phrenological analysis -- Indictment for the crime of high treason -- Testimony: Riel's trial -- Rules for polite tea -- Gilbert Sanders' diary, 1885 -- Four clocks in the Toronto Asylum: notes on Dr Daniel Clark's Medical evidence in courts of law -- Reporting on prisoners -- Heads mounted on walls -- Dear Mother, please find enclosed -- Moral judgment -- Just call me the filly from Moosomin -- Notes from interviews -- Dear father, I am feeling much encouraged -- My sister's recipe for Queen Pudding -- Endeavouring to restore animation -- Remembering St. Catharines peaches in mason jars -- For the love of drink (2) -- On the beauty of the pass -- Recipe for Indian candy -- It would be well to have a spy or two -- What Mr. Percy Allen looks like -- Future writing lessons -- Indian Act, 1876, Chapter 18, Section 62 -- Toward a definition of treason-felony, translated for the Cree -- Notes on band behavior during rebellion -- Reporting on what big bear said at his trial -- How to hang eight Indians (at once) at Battleford -- Ten steps to lunatic on walls -- The lunacy commission -- You're a patient woman, Mrs. Jukes -- The commissioner's report -- To punish -- Four clocks -- Dictionary -- On the double sources of typho malarial fever -- Contagion -- What water looks like in dreams -- Historical notes and acknowledgments.