Tobacco Wars

Publisher's Description (Quattro Books): 
Set in the early 17th century, Tobacco Wars follows the mythical and rollicking adventures of Pocahontas and playwright Ben Jonson, from the inns, alleyways and royal courts of London to pirates, perilous crossings and hostile warriors in the New World. And as worlds are turned upside down and irrevocably altered, a new commodity, tobacco, intoxicates the Old World just as an “Indian princess” undertakes her own age of exploration.

Author Biography (Penguin Random House): Paul Seesequasis is a nîpisîhkopâwiyiniw (Willow Cree) writer, journalist, cultural advocate and commentator currently residing in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Since 2015, he has curated the Indigenous Archival Photo Project, an online and physical exhibition of archival Indigenous photographs that explores history, identity and the process of visual reclamation. His writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Brick and Granta magazines, among others. He has been active in the Indigenous arts, both as an artist and a policy maker, since the 1990s.

Resource type: Book (Fiction/Poetry)

Age recommendation: Grades 10-12, Post secondary

Keywords: Bear Woman, bear, bears, creation, residential school, seasons, spring, tobacco, conflict, Indigenous, Native, Pochahontas, colonization, colonialism, colonizer, trade, refuge, nature, Christianity, Catholicism, Jamestown, food, medicine, protection, tribes, New World, cultivating land, settlers, cultivation, land, borders, plants, farming, mission, London, Wahunsenacawh, diplomacy, hunting, hunt, natural world, superiority, inferiority, Elders, illness, corruption, Samuel de Champlain, Wolverine, Quebec

Year of publication: 2010

Publisher information: Quattro Books