The Lesser Blessed Métis By listening to elders' wisdom

By listening to elders' wisdom

and coffee shops

and haunting journey that ensues goes deep into reservation boarding-school mysteries

whose career is developing rapidly from the noir underground to the mainstream

When Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school

The Lesser Blessed Métis By listening to elders' wisdomThe 20th anniversary edition of Richard Van Camp's best selling coming of age story, with a new introduction and story by the author. Larry is a Dogrib Indian growing up in the small northern town of Fort Simmer. His tongue, his hallucinations and his fantasies are hotter than the center of the sun. At sixteen, he loves Iron Maiden, the North and Juliet Hope, the high school "tramp." In this powerful and very funny first novel, Richard Van Camp gives