The Outside Circle Pictographs Blending personal narrative and broader

Blending personal narrative and broader historical and cultural analysis with close readings of key creative and critical texts

the storyteller

and post–New France French-First Nations relations

even attitudes toward sexual orientation

The end notes offers teachers and older students information about the Red River Cart Wheel Teachings that include Respect

The Outside Circle Pictographs Blending personal narrative and broaderThe Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel is a 128 page, full colour, adult theme graphic novel. Based on the PhD thesis, Reconciliation, repatriation and reconnection: A framework for building resilience in Canadian Indigenous families, Mtis counsellor Patti Laboucane Benson presents a fictionalized graphic novel that reads as a crime novel. This evidence based work of creative non fiction is illustrated by non Aboriginal graphic artist Kelly Mellings.