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Tekahionwake : E. Pauline Johnson's writings on native North America
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia

2016
Book > Poetry
Creators
Johnson, E. Pauline
Contributors
Fee, Margery ; Nason, Dory
Description
"E. Pauline Johnson, also known as Tekahionwake, is remarkable as one of a very few early North American Indigenous poets and fiction writers. Most Indigenous writers of her time were men educated for the ministry who published religious, anthropological, autobiographical, political, and historical works, rather than poetry and fiction. More extraordinary still, she became both a canonical poet and a literary celebrity, performing on stage for fifteen years across Canada, in the US, and in London. Johnson is now seen as a central figure in the intellectual history of Canada and the United States, and as an important historical example of Indigenous feminism. This edition collects a diverse range of Johnson's writings on what was then called "the Indian question" and on the question of her own complex Indigenous identity. Six thematic sections gather Johnson's poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, and a rich selection of historical appendices provide context for her public life and her work as a feminist and activist for Indigenous people" -- publisher description.
Language
English

More Information

Holding Library
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia
ISBN
9781554811915; 1554811910
Statement of Responsibility
edited by Margery Fee and Dory Nason.
Publication Information
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada ; Tonawanda, NY, USA : Broadview Press
Physical Description
358 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Notes
Series: Broadview editions.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-358).
First Nations author.
Contents
I. The Iroquois Confederacy and Loyalism -- "Canadian Born" (1900) ; "The Re-interment of Red Jacket" (1885) ; "`Brant, ' A Memorial Ode" (1886) ; "The Lodge of the Law-makers" (1906) ; "My Mother" (1909) ; "Heroic Indian Mothers" (1908) ; "Forty-Five Miles on the Grand" (1892) ; "A Brother Chief" (1892) ; "The Brotherhood" (1910) ; "The Death Cry" (1888) ; "As Red Men Die" (1890) ; "The Avenger" (1892) ; "Her Majesty's Guest" (1913) ; "A Pagan in Saint Paul's Cathedral" (1906) ; "We-hro's Sacrifice" (1907) ; "The Happy Hunting Grounds" (1889) -- II. The Plains and the Second Riel Resistance -- "A Cry from an Indian Wife" (1895) ; "Wolverine" (1893) ; "Silhouette" (1894) ; "The Cattle Thief" (1894) ; "A Request" (1886) ; "The Indian Corn Planter" (1897) ; "The Haunting Thaw" (1907) -- III. Dreams, Rivers, and Winds -- "At the Ferry" (1886) ; "The Song My Paddle Sings" (1892) ; "His Majesty, the West Wind" (1894) ; "Shadow River" (1889) ; "Kicking Horse River" (1894) ; "Moonset" (1894) -- IV. Women and Children. "A Strong Race Opinion : On the Indian Girl in Modern Fiction" (1892) ; "A Red Girl's Reasoning" (1893) ; "Dawendine" (1895) ; "Ojistoh" (1895) ; "The Derelict" (1896) ; "The Pilot of the Plains" (1891) ; "Lullaby of the Iroquois" (1896) ; "The Corn Husker" (1896) -- V. Residential School. "As It Was in the Beginning" (1899) -- "His Sister's Son" (1896) ; "Little Wolf-Willow" (1907) -- VI. The West Coast -- "The Potlatch" (1910) ; "Catharine of the Crow's Nest" (1910) ; "Hoolool of the Totem Poles" (1911) ; "The Tenas Klootchman" (1911) ; "A Squamish Legend of Napoleon" (1910) ; "The Legend of the Ice Babies" (1911) ; "The Lost Lagoon" (1910) -- Appendix A: On Johnson -- Appendix B: Writings by Women -- Appendix C: On the Six Nations -- Appendix D: Canadian Residential Schools.
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