First Nations have long cherished the gift of storytelling and oral history. As Truth and Reconciliation has set forth the goal of reconciling wrongdoings in history, Elder Sharon Bear shares important perspectives that have been omitted in written history regarding the Round Lake Mission and Cree interpreter Jacob Bear.

Pimâtisiwin Wâwiyêkamâw: A History of Jacob Bear and the Round Lake Mission provides an empowering local history of Sharon’s experiences and highlights the skewed positions of former historical and archive documents. Through consideration of the complex realities of both past and contemporary First Nation’s societies, it becomes obvious that the moulds of expectation are much more complex and diverse than the mind tends to think.