Thought Train to Pusan

I wanted to do a little more for the CBR Canada Day reads, but it just didn’t happen. So here, I thought why not cross off a CBR10 bingo square of reading a novel from my home country, but double down and make it related to the history of Canada as well: a historical fiction, but indeed related to missionary communities and tribal warfare in the early 17 th century. The great thing about our local library is that all books by Canadian authors will have a little maple leaf sticker on them so they are easy to identify. What I didn’t realize with this author, Joseph Boyden, however is that there has been some controversy and confusion as to his First Nations heritage and whether or not this is actually accurate (though he was adopted as a sibling in 2017 to an Ojibway filmmaker named Lisa Meeches). Given his focus on First Nations subject matter ( The Orenda being no different), and the winning of certain awards in this area, this raises the subject of the speaking-ov...