The Amazing Mazie Baker: The Story of a Squamish Nation's Warrior Elder

by Kay Johnston

In 1931, Mazie Antone was born into the Squamish Nation, a community caught between its traditional values of respect--for the land, the family and the band--and the secular, capitalistic legislation imposed by European settlers. When she was six, the police carried her off to St. Paul's Indian Residential School, as mandated by the 1920 Indian Act. There, she endured months of beatings, malnourishment and lice infestations before her family collected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1987915062
• ISBN13: 9781987915068
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Caitlin Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.8"