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Dance Me Outside

Dance Me Outside is a collection of short stories written by W. P. Kinsella in 1977.

The book contains seventeen stories narrated by Silas Ermineskin and is set on a Cree Indian reserve in Central Alberta and is about what happens in the lives of the people that live on the reserve.

Genre
humor
Setting
1970scanadaalberta
Audience
adult
Length
short · 158 pages
Form
short stories

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