Louis Riel and poetry

[beboots]

The one person that almost everyone remembers from Western Canadian or Métis history - if they remember anyone at all - is Louis Riel. For more information about him, see this awesome Canadian Encyclopedia Online article. For the purposes of this post, all you have to know is that he was a francophone Métis political and religious leader involved

Comments

[anyjen]

Oh. That really is seriously depressing. :(

I wasn't entirely right about what the poem said, but I wasn't so far off, either...

[beboots]

Yeah, this is definitely a depressing poem... My translation isn't perfect, but it gives you a sense of what's going on. If it makes you feel better, too, I had to look up some words, like "canif" (pocketknife).

He's also shortening his words - r'cois" instead of "recois" (receive), etc.

[hamafake]

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.