Honrar al sol
RUBY SLIPPERJACK

Published in March 2007 in Spanish

Original title: "Honour the sun"

The story of a girl, nicknamed Owl, growing up in an isolated aboriginal community in northern Ontario along the Canadian Pacific Railway line. As a ten year old, Owl writes of the warm, loving, carefree, often humorous events of her childhood. During her teen years she watches, with helpless frustration, as her mother and friends succumb to alcohol.

Ruby Slipperjack is an Ojibwa from the Fort Hope Indian Band in Ontario. She has retained much of the traditional heritage of her people, all of which inform her writing. Her first novel, Honour the sun, about a young girl growing up in a tiny Ojibwa community in northern Ontario, earned rave reviews and is widely used in schools. Slipperjack earned a B.A. in History in 1988, a B.Ed, a Master of Education and also obtained a Ph.D. degree. She currently holds the Chair of the Department of Indigenous Learning at Lakehead University.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.