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The Orenda

Book cover reads The Orenda, Joseph Boyden alternated bold red and black lettering on a beige and dark brown patterned birchbark tree bark background intermittent with beige colour leaves .

Boyden, Joseph. The Orenda. Toronto Ontario: Penguin Canada, 2013.

A historical novel by Joseph Boyden set in mid 17th century Huronia during a period of brutal skirmishes between the Huron and Iroquois and the Jesuit campain to convert aboriginal peoples. The Orenda shares a story from three perspectives illuminating the shadowy moment of a country’s inception.