num_pages: 288
description: An instant classic that demands to be read with your heart open and with a perspective widened to allow in a whole new understanding of family identity and love. Cherie DimalineA son who grew up away from his Indigenous culture takes his Cree father on a trip to their family's trapline and finds that revisiting the past not only heals old wounds but creates a new future.The son of a Cree father and a non-Indigenous mother David A. Robertson was raised with virtually no knowledge or understanding of his familys Indigenous roots. His father Don spent his early childhood on a trapline in the bush northeast of Norway House Manitoba where his first teach was the land. When his family was moved permanently to a nearby reserve Don was not permitted to speak Cree at school unless in secret with his friends and lost the knowledge he had been gifted while living on his trapline. His mother Beverly grew up in a small Manitoba town with not a single Indigenous family in it. Then Don arrived the new United Church minister and they fell in love. Structured around a father-son journey to the northern trapline where Robertson and his father will reclaim their connection to the land Black Water is the story of another journey: a young man seeking to understand his father's story to come to terms with his lifelong experience with anxiety and to finally piece together his own blood memory the parts of his identity that are woven into the fabric of his DNA.
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title: Black Water
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers