In 1876, Big Bear, a Plains Cree, stands alone among the prairie chiefs in his refusal to choose a reserve amd acknowledge white ownership over the land. His own vision comprehends a new Canadian Northwest in which all peoples can live together in peace.
The Temptations Of Big Bear is Rudy Wiebe's magnificent interpretation of western Canadian history, which encompasses not only his hero's struggle for integrity but also the whole range of richness of the Plains culture. Here is the giant circle of the parairie horizon, and the joy, the sorrow, the pain, the triumph, and the violence of unconquerable human beings faced with destruction.
The Temptations Of Big Bear won the Givernor General's Award for Fiction in 1973.

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