Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Delving into her prairie roots

Sask.-born author Sharon Butala is returning for the Festival of Words

'Wild Rose' is author Sharon Butala's latest book and
it is shortlisted for a 2016 Saskatchewan Book Award.
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By Lisa Goudy

Author Sharon Butala’s family members have been pioneers ever since first coming to Canada in 1647.

“Women were all pioneers and they were not the stereotype of the pioneer women. They were not willing to take on men’s work. They didn’t build houses and break horses and all that sort of thing, which is one stereotype,” she said.

“On the other side they were not doormats and slaves who were endlessly having babies. They were proud, dignified, capable and intelligent women who had as much courage as the men did and worked as hard in the universe that they had that was theirs and I wanted to pay tribute to those women.”

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