This is the first critical study of the literature of Canada's
native peoples, which at long last is commanding the attention it
deserves. Focusing on the work of Indians and Metis, and beginning
with an examination of the oral tradition from which their
literature grew, and that continues today, it discusses both works
generically classified as literature, and forms such as speeches
that are significant for their eloquent expression of protest and
alienation. Indeed, it is impossible to describe and quote from
much of this material without conveying more than three centuries
of political and social dissatisfaction.
Ranging from the seventeenth century to the recent publications
of Maria Campbell, Beatrice Culleton, Ruby Slipperjack, Basil H.
Johnston, Daniel David Moses, Tomson Highway, and Thomas King,
among many others, this is an illuminating and timely survey that
will greatly interest, and inform, natives and non-natives
alike.
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