"This book should be required reading for every Canadian."
- Harry Mair
"Richard Wagamese is a wonderful author. His writing is superb and you can see, smell and feel everything he writes about. His descriptions about nature and the outdoors are particularly outstanding. He always makes me feel like I am right there in the middle of the story."
- Anonymous
"Wagamese crafts an unforgettable work of art"
- Donna Bailey Nurse, National Post
"It’s a beautiful, readable book students will adore and the history is so, so important. Don’t wait for it to win or not win Canada Reads. This book should be out there either way."
- Canada Reads
Awards
Book
- Selected in the Canada Reads 2013 Selection by CBC Radio one
- 2013 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature - 1st place
- Winner of the Canada Reads People's Choice award
- Winner of the First Nations Communities Reads program
- A Globe and Mail top 100 book of 2012
Author
- First Native Canadian to win a National Newspaper Award for column writing
- His debut novel, Keeper 'n Me, published in 1994, won the Alberta Writers Guild's Best Novel Award
- Won the Native American Press Association Award for his journalism twice
- Won the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature for his 2011 memoir One Story, One Song
- Won the Canadian Authors Association Award for fiction in 2007 for his third novel, Dream Wheels
- Awarded a Canada Council Molson Prize in the Arts in 2013
- Won National Aboriginal Achievement Award in Media & Communications in 2012