Sundogs

For three years Adam Pasion documented his life in Japan in the form of daily comic strips. This volume collects all the strips from the last year of Sundogs, for the first time in print.

Stories about modern Indians in Canada. The story, Sundogs, is on the experiences of a young student in a white milieu in Vancouver. She finds herself being Indian among whites and white among Indians.

A “feisty, passionate novel” (Newsday) from a writer whose “storytelling instincts are nearly flawless” (The New York Times). The New York Times–bestselling author of thirty-nine books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry including Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and Returning to Earth, Jim Harrison was one of our most beloved and acclaimed writers, adored by both readers and critics. Sundog is a powerful novel about the life and loves of a foreman named Robert Corvus Strang, who worked on giant dam projects around the world until he was crippled in a fall down a three-hundred-foot dam. Now as he tries to regain use of his legs, he has a chance to reassess his life, and a blasé journalist who has heard of Strang’s reputation in the field arrives to draw him out about his various incarnations. Strang, who has the violently heightened sensibilities of a man who has gone to the limits and back, recounts his monumental life moving from Michigan to Africa and the Amazon, including his several marriages and children, and dozens of lovers, Sundog is a story as true and gripping as real life, and ultimately as victorious.

Follow the bright, colorful Sundogs SuSu, Yogi, Harley, Bo, Zeke, and Juno as they travel to the great windmill to find their forever homes. Along the way, they learn that with friends, real magic is possible . . .

With Elijah Harper's symbolic blockage of the Meech Lake Accord and the high intensity of the Mohawk Warrior Society's defiant stand, 1990 marked a significant change for both First Nations and all the other people living in Canada. Sundogs is a novel about the struggle of a young First Nations family for love and solidarity in the context of that turbulent year. From urban Vancouver, to a small town in the Okanagan Valley, and across the country on a desperate bid for peace between the Canadian government and the Mohawk Nation, Marianne, Sundog's heroine, finds a moment of peace from the confusion and dis-unity in her own life. In returning to the beliefs of her ancestry, she comes to chart the course of her life anew. Through Sundogs, Lee Maracle takes the reader on a cultural and spiritual journey into the heart of First Nations country. The agony, the joy and humour of First Nation's people makes the novel a lively and inspirational piece of work. Sundogs presents the reader an intimate look at the lives of one family during the momentous events surrounding the downfall of Meech Lake and the Oka crisis from a very personal perspective.

Discusses and explains visual phenomena seen in the sky, primarily interactions of light and atmosphere such as rainbows, mirages, the twinkling of stars, the blue color of the sky, and the Northern Lights.