ISBN

0774803711

Statement of Responsibility

edited by W.H. New

Publication Information

Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press

Physical Description

306 pages ; 23 cm

Contents

Editorial : learning to listen -- Articles -- One generation from extinction / Basil H. Johnston -- Reassessing traditional Inuit poetry / Robin Mcgrath -- This also is you : some classics of Native Canadianliterature / 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 -- Poems -- Frank Conibear : Artifacts -- Joan Crate : Negative of you ; Shawnandithit (Last of the Beothuks) ; The blizzard moans my name -- Jim Tallosi : A prairie museum ; Belugas ; Four dancers -- David P. Reiter : Chewing the pieces -- Denis Stokes : Pakashgoogan -- M.T. Kelly : Shoreline, old lake Iroquois -- Ben Abel : Nightmare comfort -- Rita Joe : Klu'skap-o'kom ; The dream was the answer -- Emma Larocque : Nostalgia ; The red in winter ; "Progress" -- Wayne Keon : Earth nites ; I'm not in charge of this ritual ; Big Steve ; Down on the Yucatan ; Shaman and the raven -- Lee Maracle : Yin Chin -- Bruce Chester : The wet ; Working on titles ; Eaglse caught salmon -- Daniel David Moses : Song on starling stree ; Breakdown moon ; Blue moon ; Inukshuk -- Thomas King : Coyote learns to whistle ; Coyote sees the prime minister ; Coyote goes to Toronto ; The city on the hill -- Alootook Ipellie : The dancing sun ; The water moved an instant -- Mingwôn Mingwôn (Shirley Bear) : April 23, 1985: Aboriginal Rights Conference -- Review Articles -- No writing at all here : review notes on writing Native / L.R. Ricou -- Sucking kumaras / Gary Boire.