Katherena Vermette
Author
Series
Girl called Echo volume 1
Formats
Description
"Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee's history class turns extraordinary, and Echo's life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee's lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place--a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie--and back again to the present. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"A young girl becomes lost in the woods after wandering too far away from her mother. Scared because she is lost, she encounters a large wolf who reminds her of her own ability to survive and find her mother again."--
Author
Series
Girl called Echo volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
47 pages : chiefly illustrations (color) ; 26 cm
Description
"In the fourth volume of A Girl Called Echo, Echo Desjardins resumes her time travel and learns more about Métis history in Canada, including the "road allowance" land set aside by the crown, and the former community known as "Rooster Town" in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She also witnesses the trial of Louis Riel in Regina, Saskatchewan."--
Author
Series
Girl called Echo volume 3
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
47 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
"A graphic novel about the Northwest Resistance of 1885. In this book, the protagonist Echo Desjarlais encounters the Metis people of the Northwest Territory, including leaders Louis Riel, Gabriel Dumont and Mistahimaskwa, in Batoche and other sites of the Resistance. After victories, then defeat, at the hands of the Canadian Forces, Riel surrenders. Echo travels back to the present, where she discovers her own ties to the Métis who fought there....
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"Tired of reading negative and disparaging remarks directed at Indigenous people in Winnipeg in the press and on social media, artist KC Adams created a photo series that presented another perspective. Called "Perception," it confronted common stereotypes of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people to illustrate a more contemporary, truthful story. First appearing on billboards, in storefronts, in bus shelters, and projected onto Winnipeg's downtown...