Approaching Fire

Description:

Michelle Porter embarks on a quest to find her great-grandfather, the Me tis fiddler and performer Le on Robert Goulet. Through musicology, jigs and reels, poetry, photographs, and the ecology of fire, Porter invests biography with the power of reflective ingenuity, creating a portrait which expands beyond documentation into a private realm where truth meets metaphor.

subjects: Family,  Indigenous peoples,  Poetry,  Canadian poetry,  Me tis authors,  Me tis,  Ethnic identity,  Biography,  Genealogy,  Folk dance music,  Violin and piano music