Michael Barnholden’s discovery of a previously unknown text by Louis Riel—a poem written in the Regina jail just before his execution—has led to Flat Willow Creek: The Poems of Louis Riel, 1878–1883 (Talon $19.95) which includes the 481-line epic “To Sir John A.” and other poems written when Riel lived the traditional life of a Métis buffalo hunter and developed his concept of a “New Nation” for the Métis people.

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