This Sunday, August 9, is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples — a fitting week to spotlight one of the most unusual books in our catalogue.
OWINDIA: A True Tale of the Mackenzie River Indians, written in 1886 by Charlotte Selina Bompas, is a rare firsthand account from Canada’s North: the story of a Dene woman’s life along the Mackenzie River. A woman writing about a woman, from a time and place that produced very few published records — books like this are why we keep these texts in print. Our reprint edition preserves the original text in full.
