Indigenous Poetics in Canada

Edited by Neal McLeod
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Indigenous Studies, Poetry
Series: Indigenous Studies

Indigenous Poetics in Canada broadens the way in which Indigenous poetry is examined, studied, and discussed in Canada. Breaking from the parameters of traditional English literature studies, this volume ...

Words of the Huron

By John L. Steckley
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, History, Canadian History
Series: Indigenous Studies

Words of the Huron is an investigation into seventeenth-century Huron culture through a kind of linguistic archaeology of a language that died midway through the twentieth century.
John L. Steckley explores ...

Indian Country

By Gail Guthrie Valaskakis
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Since first contact, Natives and newcomers have been involved in an increasingly complex struggle over power and identity. Modern “Indian wars” are fought over land and treaty rights, artistic appropriation, and ...

Walking a Tightrope

Edited by David T. McNab & Ute Lischke
Subjects: Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

“The most we can hope for is that we are paraphrased correctly.” In this statement, Lenore Keeshig-Tobias underscores one of the main issues in the representation of Aboriginal peoples by non-Aboriginals. Non ...

Image of the Indian

By Ronald Haycock
Subjects: Indigenous Studies

The intention of this paper is to take a look at a representation of what Canadians were reading about their Indians over seventy years of this century. The purpose is to determine what view of the Canadian ...