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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Sir John A
    sub title: acts of a gentrified Ojibway rebellion : a play
  name:
    name part: Taylor, Drew Hayden
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: drama
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: bcc
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 97 pages : portrait ; 22 cm.
  abstract: Explores the possibility of reconciliation between Peoples and urgently questions past and contemporary forms of Canadian colonialism. Taylor's twenty-seventh play, Sir John A's characters include Canada's infamous first Prime Minister, red-nosed and pompous, full of patriarchal contempt for those "strange and perplexing Indians," and his contemporary accusers, two Ojibway men and a soul-searching white woman. Bobby Rabbit, Sir John A's irked, Anishinaabe main character, in a fit of anger and revenge, convinces his friend Hugh to accompany him on a "sojourn of justice," to dig up Sir John A. Macdonald's bones and hold them for ransom. Decades before, a medicine pouch belonging to Bobby's grandfather was taken away by the staff of the residential school where he was detained. The precious object was sent to a British Museum exhibition room for conservation, and now Bobby wants it repatriated. Along the way the pair pick up Anya, a young, bright and opinionated woman fleeing a bad breakup, with conflicting ideas about Sir John A's place in Canadian history. Not to be left out of the argument, Canada's first Prime Minister, broadcasting live from nineteenth-century Ottawa, shows up with opinions of his own. Sir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion is a powerful satire, a creative debate about the past violences of colonial racism and the as yet untested potentiality of restoring harmony between Peoples in Canada.
  note: by Drew Hayden Taylor.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-97).
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Macdonald, John A. (John Alexander)
      name part: 1815-1891
    genre: Drama
  subject:
    topic: Indians of North America
    geographic: Canada
    genre: Drama
  subject:
    topic: Ojibwa Indians
    genre: Drama
  subject:
    topic: Revenge
    genre: Drama
  subject:
    topic: Cultural property
    topic: Repatriation
    genre: Drama
  subject:
    geographic: Canada
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
    genre: Drama
  subject:
    topic: Prime ministers
    geographic: Canada
    genre: Drama
  subject:
    topic: Canadian drama
    temporal: 21st century
  classification: 812.6 T2397
  identifier: 9781772012149
  identifier: 1772012149
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 180525
    record change date: 20190422110429.0
    record identifier: in00004056370
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng