Le Wild West Show de Gabriel Dumont / Gabriel Dumont's Wild West Show

Au lendemain de la pendaison de Louis Riel en 1885, Gabriel Dumont, leader de la rsistance mtisse et chasseur de bisons, prend la fuite et se rfugie aux tats-Unis. Il y est recrut par Buffalo Bill, figure mythique reconnue pour ses Wild West Shows, des spectacles itinrants qui reprsentent la vie du Far West. Toute sa vie, Dumont rvera de raconter, dans un spectacle grand dploiement, la lutte des Mtis pour la reconnaissance de leurs droits.

uvre dramatique joyeusement anachronique, Le Wild West Show de Gabriel Dumont - cocrit par dix auteurs et autrices autochtones et allochtones - donne vie au vieux rve de Dumont en mettant en scne les vnements qui ont men la rsistance du Nord-Ouest.

Publi en codition avec Talonbooks (Vancouver), l'ouvrage contient deux versions, dominante franaise et anglaise. Il comprend aussi des visuels, une introduction et un dossier permettant de contextualiser la pice.

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In 1885, following the hanging of his friend Louis Riel, Mtis Resistance leader and bison hunter Gabriel Dumont fled to the United States. There he was recruited by the legendary Buffalo Bill, founder of Buffalo Bill's Wild West , a gigantic outdoor travelling show that re-enacted life in the American West. Dumont dreamed of putting together a similar show to tell the story of the struggle of the Mtis to reclaim their rights.

The creative team behind Gabriel Dumont's Wild West Show - including ten authors, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, French- and English-speaking men and women - brings Dumont's dream to life in a captivating, joyously anachronistic saga with a rodeo vibe.

Co-published with Prise de parole (Sudbury), the work consists of two versions, one predominantly in English and the other predominantly in French.