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  • Kiss of the fur queen
    Author:

    Highway, Tomson

    Summary:

    In the 1950s, Abraham Okimasis becomes the first Indian ever to win the Trapper's Festival Dog Sled Race and, as tradition dictates, he is kissed by the festival's beautiful Fur Queen.

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  • Dry lips oughta move to Kapuskasing: a play
    Author:

    Highway, Tomson

    Summary:

    "Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing" tells another story of the mythical Wasaychigan Hill Indian Reserve, also the setting for Tomson Highway's award winning play The Rez Sisters.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Drama

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  • The rez sisters a play in two acts
    Author:

    Highway, Tomson

    Summary:

    Protrays the attempts of seven Indian women from a northern Ontario reserve to beat the odds and win the world's largest bingo in Ontario.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Drama

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  • A Tale of Monstrous Extravagance
    Author:

    Highway, Tomson

    Summary:

    “Speaking one language, I submit, is like living in a house with one window only...” From his legendary birth in a snow bank in northwestern Manitoba, through his metamorphosis to citizen-artist o

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