Echo Desjardins, a 13 year-old Metis girl, is struggling with her feelings of loneliness while attending a new school and living with a new foster family.
Pemmican Wars is the first graphic novel in a new series, A Girl Called Echo , by Governor General Award-winning writer, and author of Highwater Press\' The Seven Teaching Stories, Katherena Vermette..
She visits a Metis camp, travels the old fur trade routes, and experiences the perilous and bygone era of the Pemmican wars.
In the following weeks, Echo slips back and forth in time.
Bee\'s lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place--a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie--and back again to the present.
During Mr.
Bee\'s history class turns extraordinary and Echo\'s life will never be the same.
Then an ordinary day in Mr.
Echo Desjardins, a 13 year-old Metis girl, is struggling with her feelings of loneliness while attending a new school and living with a new foster family
