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A Study Guide for Jan Hudson's "Sweetgrass"
A Study Guide for Jan Hudson's "Sweetgrass"
A Study Guide for Jan Hudson's "Sweetgrass"
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A Study Guide for Jan Hudson's "Sweetgrass"

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A Study Guide for Jan Hudson's "Sweetgrass," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 15, 2016
ISBN9781535834506
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    A Study Guide for Jan Hudson's "Sweetgrass" - Gale

    09

    Sweetgrass

    Jan Hudson

    1984

    Introduction

    Although Jan Hudson's Sweetgrass (1984) is an historical fiction, based on events that took place during the winter of 1837-1838, it is a novel that has contemporary themes. Part love story, part coming-of-age story, and part intergenerational conflict story. Hudson's novel continues in the long tradition of historical fiction aimed at juvenile audiences. Recounting the story of a young girl's struggle for autonomy in a traditional culture that is itself in transition, Sweetgrass is a novel notable, too, for its careful attention to the details of daily life of First Nations women.

    Author Biography

    Janis (Jan) Mary Hudson was born on April 27, 1954, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Her parents, Laurence and Mary Wiedrick, moved north to Edmonton soon after Jan's birth, so her father could assume the position of head of library services for the Edmonton Public School Board; he would later become a professor of School Librarianship at the University of Alberta. Hudson attended school in Edmonton, before returning to the University of Calgary where she completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1978. She headed north again and completed a law degree at the University of Alberta in 1984.

    Curiously, it was during one of her father's professional sabbaticals that Hudson's writing career began in earnest. Moving with the family to Eugene, Oregon, for a short period when she was in eleventh grade gave Hudson the opportunity to meet Allan Woods, an English and drama teacher who recognized her talent for writing. He encouraged her to enter her work in local and state competitions, which she did. Although she was recognized only as one of two

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