mahikan ka-onot The Poetry of Duncan Mercredi Wendat The strength in their song

The strength in their song sustains them through trials on the ground and in the sky

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mahikan ka-onot The Poetry of Duncan Mercredi Wendat The strength in their songmahikan ka onot by Duncan Mercredi, who was born in Misipawistik (Grand Rapids) Manitoba to a Mtis father and Cree mother; and edited by Warren Cariou, who was born in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan into a family of Mtis and European heritage. is a collection of Duncan Mercredi's poems from 1991 to recent unpublished poems. These poems of life on the land as well as life in the city, vibrant with the rhythms of traditional Cree and Mtis storytelling but