Name: Northwest Resistance
ISBN: 9781553798316

Katherena Vermette

Northwest Resistance is volume three in the graphic novel series, A Girl Called Echo, by Katherena Vermette, a Governor General Award-winning writer and author of The Seven Teaching Stories (HighWater Press).

Northwest Resistance

Fraser Simons

Another solid entry, penultimate, I believe. In which Echo, in engaging with the historical text at school again dreams herself into history; only she has no agency there and is a mere spectator to the destruction of her people. Something I thought was a good way of illustrating the empathy exercise of reading, as coupled with an active imagination and probably hyper phantasic mind. 

Plot wise, there’s a bit more of a development on the family front too. And, as usual, a timeline of historical events is at the end; always helpful and nice. I saw some people complain it wasn’t as fleshed out as the list of events… it’s 48 pages, not 140. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Erin 

This series always ends so quickly, just as I am getting into the story. I hope there will be an omnibus someday where they can all be read one after the other.