The Pemmican Eaters recreates a palpable sense of the Riel Resistance. It evokes the period's geography, culture, and politics through the eyes of those who experienced the battles as well as Gabriel and Madeleine Dumont, and Louis Riel.

Marilyn Dumont’s poetry has won provincial and national awards. She has been the writer-in-residence at five Canadian universities and the Edmonton Public Library as well as an advisor in the Aboriginal Emerging Writers Program at the Banff Centre. She teaches sessional creative writing for Athabasca University and Native studies and English for the University of Alberta. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta.