Copper Sunrise

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A later edition of Copper Sunrise
A later edition of Copper Sunrise

Copper Sunrise is a children's novel by Canadian author Bryan Buchan. It was first published in 1972.

Copper Sunrise explores issues that have surrounded interactions between white people and Native North Americans. This issue is presented to the reader via a tale of a white boy during the early days of colonization in Canada who encounters the last of the Beothuk native people of Newfoundland.


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There had been past issues with this profound novel. Over in Canada, adults felt that children would be disturbed, or otherwise educated wrongly about Native Americans. People feel that the portrayal of natives in this novel is insulting, and do not want their children to feel as if Natives are beneath caucasian people. Aboriginal peoples in the book have been portrayed as savages in the novel, and undergo genocide.