· The book won the Governor General's Award, and in the s was made into a CBC television miniseries based on a script co-written by Wiebe and Métis director Gil Cardinal, shot in 4/5(1). VG+/, reprint of NCL ed of , Rudy Wiebe, intro, Allan Bevan, The Temptations of Big Bear, softcover, 11x18cm, lightly toned pp, +ads for NCL, novel based on historic facts that studies the whole range and richness of the Plains Indian culture, New Canadian Library, No. , a tight square fresh copy showing no wear, name stamps on inside f cover and ffep. The book captures the poetic eloquence of Big Bear, his yearning to keep the old way and pity for his people if. Rudy Wiebe, a Mennonite from Saskatchewan, tells the story of Big Bear, a powerful Cree leader of the River People in the ’s/5(20).
Early in his writing career, Rudy Wiebe's imagination was caught by a heroic character of Cree and Ojibwa ancestry whose birthplace was within twenty-five miles of where Wiebe himself was born years later. The man's name translated into English was Big Bear, and he came to be the subject. Rudy Wiebe, is best known for his novels set in the Canadian prairies and his representations of First Nations people. He was awarded the Governor General's Award for Fiction twice, for The Temptations of Big Bear () and A Discovery of Strangers () and won the Charles Taylor Prize for Of This Earth: a Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest (). Wiebe then turned to historical fiction. The Temptations of Big Bear () is a long, intricate novel centred on a Plains Cree chief (seeBIG BEAR). It won a Gov Gen's Award. The Scorched-Wood People () is set in the same period and offers an interpretation of Louis RIEL from the viewpoint of the Métis. Both books are based on detailed.
Rudy Wiebe, a Mennonite from Saskatchewan, tells the story of Big Bear, a powerful Cree leader of the River People in the ’s. Wiebe weaves us through the factual words and the fictionalized inner world of Big Bear, his son’s, and the white men and women involved in his life. Big Bear. by. Rudy Wiebe, John Ralston Saul (Editor) · Rating details · 64 ratings · 12 reviews. Big Bear (—) was a Plains Cree chief in Saskatchewan at a time when aboriginals were confronted with the disappearance of the buffalo and waves of European settlers that seemed destined to destroy the Indian way of life. Rudy Wiebe's The Temptations of Big Bear is an epic of the Canadian West. As the buffalo-based food supply vanishes, Big Bear leads his Plains Cree nation across the prairie in search of a means of retaining the way of life quickly being lost—a life his people have lived for thousands of years.
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