A Girl Called Echo Vol 1: Pemmican Wars boarding schools elders of the Mille Lacs

elders of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe transmit a storehouse of experience and memories

" — The New York Times

of remembering our original relationship to the seeds and

"—Tara Perron

A Girl Called Echo Vol 1: Pemmican Wars boarding schools elders of the Mille LacsEcho Desjardins, a thirteen year old mtis girl, is struggling with feelings of loneliness while attending a new school and living with a new foster family. 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 placea bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairieand back again. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and forth in