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Brief Biography
Darlene A. Ricker is a freelance writer who contributes to the Micmac and Maliseet Nations News and edits The Bear River Beat, the L'sitkuk community newsletter. She holds an M.A. in History from The University of Western Ontario, where she studied Amerindian History.
She enjoys canoeing and camping through the back country of southwestern Nova Scotia. A caseworker with Employment Support Services, Annapolis District office of Community Services, she lives in Bear River with her partner George Chisholm.
Selected List of Publications
- L'sitkuk: The Story of the Bear River Mi'kmaw Community. Roseway Publishing, 1998. ISBN 1-896496-05-9.
- Second place for non-fiction in the 1997 WFNS Atlantic Writing Competition.
- "L'sitkuk is a Mi'kmaw community in Bear River, Nova Scotia, whose history is [...] recorded in an unusual book by Darlene A. Ricker. L'sitkuk, the book, is a mind-boggling mixture of storytelling and documented history, the likes of which would impress the most astute scholars. It contains stories from elders, observers, trappers, loggers, and moose-callers, including the voices of both women and men." - from "Oral tradition." Review by Jill Manderson. Atlantic Books Today, Summer 1998.
