Native Writers and Canadian Writing
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Native Writers and Canadian Writing
306 pages

Table of Contents
Editorial: Learning to Listen
Articles
One Generation from Extinction / Basil H. Johnston
Reassessing Traditional Inuit Poetry / Robin McGrath
That Also Is You: Some Classics of Native Canadian Literature / Robert Bringhurst
“A Parcel of Whelps”: Alexander Mackenzie among the Indians / Parker Duchemin
Savage, Degenerate, and Dispossessed: Some Sociological, Anthropological, and Legal Backgrounds to the Depiction of Native Peoples in Early Long Poems on Canada / D.M.R. Bentley
Red & White Men; Black, White & Grey Hats: Literary Attitudes to the Interaction between European and Native Canadians in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century / Mary Lu Macdonald
Mourning Dove’s Canadian Recovery Years, 1917-1919 / Alanna Kathleen Brown
Contemporary Native Women’s Voices in Literature / Agnes Grant
Equality among Women / Mingwon Mingwon (Shirley Bear)
Jeannette Armstrong & the Colonial Legacy / Noel Elizabeth Currie
Yin Chin / Lee Maracle
Upsetting Fake Ideas: Jeannette Armstrong’s “Slash” and Beatrice Culleton’s “April Raintree” / Margery Fee
The Politics of Representation: Some Native Canadian Women Writers / Barbara Godard
Border Work / Celia Haig-Brown
A Double-Bladed Knife: Subversive Laughter in Two Stories by Thomas King / Margaret Atwood
Lines and Circles: The “Rez” Plays of Tomson Highway / Denis W. Johnston
The Baffin Writers’ Project / Victoria Freeman
Cultures in Conflict: The Problem of Discourse / Robin Ridington
The Prophecy / Basil H. Johnston
Poems
Artifacts / Frank Conibear
Negative of You; Shawnandithit (Last of the Beothuks); The Blizzard Moans My Name /
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