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Literary Land Claims - The aIndian Land Questiona from Pontiacas War to Attawapiskat (Paperback)
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Literature not only represents Canada as "our home and native land"
but has been used as evidence of the civilization needed to claim
and rule that land. Indigenous people have long been represented as
roaming "savages" without land title and without literature.
Literary Land Claims: From Pontiac's War to Attawapiskat analyzes
works produced between 1832 and the late 1970s by writers who
resisted these dominant notions. Margery Fee examines John
Richardson's novels about Pontiac's War and the War of 1812 that
document the breaking of British promises to Indigenous nations.
She provides a close reading of Louis Riel's addresses to the court
at the end of his trial in 1885, showing that his vision for
sharing the land derives from the Indigenous value of respect. Fee
argues that both Grey Owl and E. Pauline Johnson's visions are
obscured by challenges to their authenticity. Finally, she shows
how storyteller Harry Robinson uses a contemporary Okanagan
framework to explain how white refusal to share the land meant that
Coyote himself had to make a deal with the King of England. Fee
concludes that despite support in social media for Theresa Spence's
hunger strike, Idle No More, and the Indian Residential School
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the story about "savage
Indians" and "civilized Canadians" and the latter group's superior
claim to "develop" the lands and resources of Canada still
circulates widely. If the land is to be respected and shared as it
should be, literary studies needs a new critical narrative, one
that engages with the ideas of Indigenous writers and
intellectuals.
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