The Adventures of Sajo and her Beaver People

The Adventures of Sajo and her Beaver People
	First edition
Author	Grey Owl
Illustrator	Grey Owl
Country	Canada
Language	English
Genre	Adventures; Western novel
Publisher	Lovat Dickson & Thompson
Publication date	1935
Media type	Print
Pages	256

The Adventures of Sajo and her Beaver People is a 1935 children's adventure novel, written and illustrated by Canadian author Grey Owl. It was based on real-life events. The novel became a bestseller, and contributed to drawing half a million people to Grey Owl's lectures in the late 1930s.^[1] Within five years of its publication, it was translated into many European languages, including Polish and Russian.^[2]^[3]

Plot[]

Sajo, a young Ojibwe Indian girl, and her older brother adopt two young beavers, Chilawee and Chikanee, and try to save them from fur traders.

Notes[]

^ Loo, Tina (2006). States of Nature: Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century. Vancouver: UBC Press. p. 112. ISBN 9780774812894. Retrieved 2014-07-22.
^ Edwards, Gail (2010). Picturing Canada: A History of Canadian Children's Illustrated Books and Publishing. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 48. ISBN 978-0802085405. Retrieved 2014-07-22.
^ "Translations of Sajo and her Beaver People". Index Translationum. UNESCO. Retrieved 2014-07-22.

External links[]

The Adventures of Sajo and her Beaver People at Faded Page (Canada)
The Adventures of Sajo and her Beaver People at the GoodReads.com

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[1] Loo, Tina (2006). States of Nature: Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century. Vancouver: UBC Press. p. 112. ISBN 9780774812894. Retrieved 2014-07-22.

[2] Edwards, Gail (2010). Picturing Canada: A History of Canadian Children's Illustrated Books and Publishing. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 48. ISBN 978-0802085405. Retrieved 2014-07-22.

[3] "Translations of Sajo and her Beaver People". Index Translationum. UNESCO. Retrieved 2014-07-22.

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