{"product_id":"tatsea","title":"Tatsea","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct DescriptionWinner of the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award (Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards).Set in Canada's Subarctic in the late 1700s, a time when the Dogrib people were under constant threat of attack by raiders supplied with European weapons. After Ikotsali saves Tatsea and her father following a huntingaccident, Tatsea is obliged to marry their strange-looking rescuer. One day when Ikotsali is away from camp, raiders arrive and kill everyone. The only lives spared are those of Tatsea, who is captured, and their infant daughter, whom she has hidden. When Ikotsali returns to find the carnage, the story of their struggle to survive and be reunited begins.\"Tatsea brings back the years when our grandparents lived their lives.\"--Mike Nitsiza, counsellor, Mezi Community School, Wha Ti, Northwets TerritoriesFrom the AuthorIn 1983 my wife and I moved to the Northwest Territories to teach at Mezi Community School in Lac La Martre, a Dogrib community midway between Great Slave Lake and the Mackenzie River. Frustrated by the dearth of printed learning materials relevant to the lives of the students, the school staff, under the enthusaistic leadership of principal Jim Martin, embarked on a reader project in which school staff wrote stories based on the life of the community. Duirng the Lac La Martre Reader Project, I was told the story of how the Dogribs got their first rifle and the story of how a Dogrib medicine man led pursuing Cree raiders from Mans Bones Island down the LaMartre River and over La Martre Falls. I was also told the story of the boy who turned into a frog and stories of Yamozha, the man who wandered around to make the world safe for people. Although these stories I was told are set in a time when the Dogrib people were being attacked by raiders who had contact with white traders, the responsibility for combining the stories into one narrative and imaging the characters Tatsea (taht say ah) and Ikotsali (ee koh tsah lee) is mine. I must thank Mike Nitsiza and Frances Zoe for telling me the stories that planted the seeds for Tatsea, and for guiding me on a trip down the La Martre to the falls. That ride left many images in my head that were employed during the writing of the novel.-Armin WiebeAbout the AuthorArmin Wiebe's novels have been nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. His stories have been published in a number of literary magazines and anthologies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Just Great Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43857855447274,"sku":"001-052622-Langly-0888394640","price":21.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/1735\/7290\/products\/21RGMRSYXFL.jpg?v=1674794084","url":"https:\/\/justgreatbooks.org\/products\/tatsea","provider":"Just Great Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}