''Halfbreed'' (sometimes known as ''Half-Breed'') is a

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Maria Campbell Maria Campbell (born April 26, 1939 near Park Valley, Saskatchewan) is a Métis author, playwright, broadcaster, filmmaker, and Elder. Campbell is a fluent speaker of four languages: Cree, Michif, Western Ojibwa, and English. Four of her publis ...

, published by

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in 1973. The book details Campbell's life growing up

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. The memoir has gone though several reprints, re-published most recently in 2019. This latest edition including a previously removed chapter, which detailed Campbell being sexually assaulted by an

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officer. An adaptation of the book by

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, the director of the 2022 Canadian horror film ''Dark Nature'', is in the works.

References

1973 non-fiction books Canadian memoirs McClelland & Stewart books Non-fiction books about Indigenous peoples of the Americas {{Memoir-stub