ANTHROPOMORPHIC REPRESENTATION OF CANADIAN HISTORY IN THE BOOK SPIRIT OF THE WHITE BISON

Beatrice Culleton Mosionier's book Spirit of the White Bison presents Canadian history from the perspective of an anthropomorphic animal and uses imagism, symbolism, and a simple narrative style. As a Métis woman as well as a writer, Mosionier tries to convey her views and thoughts to present the troubled history of Métis people, their sufferings, culture and tradition. She gives us vivid images of European colonization, buffalo hunting, fur trades and industrial development from the perspective of a white bison. The paper also delves into the author’s choice of a medium like children’s fiction to convey a topic with such gravity. The study uses anthropomorphic animal theory to understand the relationship between humans’ and animals' ways of thinking and emotional state.