Murdo Scribe
Canadian educator and storyteller, Swampy Cree or Muskegon people
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| Intro | Canadian educator and storyteller, Swampy Cree or Muskegon people | |
| Places | Canada | |
| is | Writer Children's writer | |
| Work field | Literature | |
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Biography
Murdo Scribe (1920–1983) was a Swampy Cree educator from Norway House, Manitoba, Canada. He recorded his stories and some of the legends that had been passed to him. He wrote Murdo's Story, the text of a children's picture book published in 1985, which is available in Cree and Ojibwe as well as English.
Murdo's Story was illustrated by Terry Gallagher, Gallagher won a 1985 Canada Council Children's Literature Prize, now the Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration.
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Murdo's Story: A Legend From Northern Manitoba. Illustrated by Terry Gallagher. Winnipeg, MB: Pemmican Publications, 1985. ISBN 0-919143-07-5. CIP.
- Subject headings: Animals-Folklore-Juvenile literature-Indians of North America-Manitoba-Legends