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THE GOLDEN METIS
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ISBN: 0-123456-78-9

The Golden Metis is a fictional story that has been written by Flynn J. Ell. Flynn J. Ell is a retired newsman who worked on newspapers in Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and Washington. He was introduced 20 years ago to the term Metis through Montana historian Joseph Kinsey Howard’s “Strange Empire,” a history of Louis Riel’s tragic efforts to provide a land base for his people.

The Golden Metis portrays a period of life in Dakota Territory still not much talked about and thereby forgotten by most below the 49th parallel.

The adventures of Phillipe Antoine Beneteau, a skilled horseman, marksman and buffalo hunter, although a work of fiction, may signify the pattern of dispersal of Metis people into reservation life and the unsettled space of Canada, which they shared with their Indian ancestors.

Beneteau could pass, as a white man in 1883 when being of mixed blood was not an advantage. His looks betrayed him into spending as much time running from the law in the Dakotas as he does buffalo hunting and courting Maria, the love of his life. He is the Golden Metis.

While the era of large-scale buffalo hunts by Metis hunters and their families using Red River carts is gone, their memories continue to haunt the plains where the vast herds once roamed.

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