Enjoy the dog days of summer – named for Sirius, the Dog Star, of Canis Major, so prominent in the night skies this time of year – we’re going to relax and soak in the last of this most ephemeral of season – catch us back here after Labour Day.
While I was home in Newfoundland this past summer, I was given a copy of a series of graphic novels by David Alexander Robinson dubbed Tales from Shadow River, illustrated stories about Indigenous people (Highwater Press). The Healer: Mary Webb, retells the life of my paternal great-great-grandmother, Mary Webb, a Mi’kmaq healer and midwife to 700 babies around Bay St Georges on NL’s west coast.
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