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1 online resource (306 pages) |
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Articles. One generation from extinction / Basil H. Johnston -- Reassessing traditional Inuit poetry / Robin McGrath -- That also is you : some classics of Native Canadian literature / r 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 / Mingwôn Mingwôn (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 |
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Poems. Artifacts / Frank Conibear -- Negative of you ; Shawnandithit (last of the Beothuks) ; The blizzard moans my name / Joan Crate -- A prairie museum ; Belugas ; Four dancers / Jim Tallosi -- Chewing the pieces / David P. Reiter -- Pakashgoogan / Denis Stokes -- Shoreline, old Lake Iroquois / M.T. Kelly -- Nightmare comfort / Ben Abel -- Klu'skap-o'kom ; The dream was the answer / Rita Joe -- Nostalgia ; The red in winter ; "Progress" / Emma Larocque -- Earth nites ; I'm not in charge of this ritual ; Big Steve ; Down on the Yucatan ; Shaman and the raven / Wayne Keon -- Yin Chin / Lee Maracle -- The wet ; Working on titles ; Eagles caught salmon / Bruce Chester -- Song on Starling Street ; Breakdown moon ; Blue moon ; Inukshuk / Daniel David Moses -- Coyote learns to whistle ; Coyote sees the prime minister ; Coyote goes to Toronto ; The city on the hill / Thomas King -- The dancing sun ; The water moved an instant / Alootook Ipellie -- April 23, 1985 : Aboriginal Rights Conference / Mingwôn Mingwôn (Shirley Bear) |
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Review articles. No writing at all here : review notes on writing native / L.R. Ricou -- Sucking kumaras / Gary Boire |
Summary |
This collection of Canadian Indian and Inuit writing includes poetry, review articles, discussion of the genre and history and criticism of individual authors |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Subject |
Canadian literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism
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Canadian literature -- Inuit authors -- History and criticism
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Indians of North America -- Canada -- Literary collections
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Indians of North America -- Canada -- Intellectual life
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Canadian literature -- History and criticism
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Canadian literature -- Indian authors.
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Canadian literature -- Inuit authors.
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Inuit -- Literary collections
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Oral tradition -- Canada
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Indians in literature.
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Inuit in literature.
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Eskimos in literature.
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Canadian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Literary collections
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Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Intellectual life
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Eskimos in literature
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Canadian literature
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Canadian literature -- Indian authors
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Canadian literature -- Inuit authors
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Indians in literature
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Indians of North America
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Indians of North America -- Intellectual life
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Inuit
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Inuit in literature
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Oral tradition
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Literatur
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Letterkunde.
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Inheemsen.
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Engels.
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Canada
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Kanada
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Englisch.
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Indianer.
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Eskimo.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary collections
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Electronic book
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Author |
New, W. H. (William Herbert), 1938-
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LC no. |
90215019 |
ISBN |
9780774854474 |
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0774854472 |
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7748037116 |
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9787748037116 |
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1283225662 |
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9781283225663 |
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9786613225665 |
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6613225665 |
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