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#167 (Winter 2000)
First Nations Writing

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Editorial

Margery Fee

• Reading Aboriginal Lives (p. 5 - 7)
• Subjects: First Nations, Postcolonialism

Articles

Susanna Egan

• Telling Trauma: Generic Dissonance in the Production of Stolen Life (p. 10 - 29)
• Subjects: First Nations, Law & Prison, Trauma
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Christine Watson

• Autobiographical Writing as a Healing Process: Interview with Alice Masak French (p. 32 - 42)
• Subjects: First Nations, Life Writing, Northern Canada
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Albert Braz

• The Absent Protagonist: Louis Riel in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Literature (p. 45 - 61)
• Subjects: Canadian Studies, First Nations, History, Nineteenth Century, Postcolonialism
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Warren Cariou

• The Racialized Subject in James Tyman’s Inside Out (p. 68 - 84)
• Subjects: Autobiography, First Nations, Law & Prison, Memory & Identity, Trauma
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Robin Ridington

• Happy Trails to You: Contexted Discourse and Indian Removals in Thomas King’s Truth & Bright Water (p. 89 - 107)
• Subjects: First Nations, Novel
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Poems

Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

• fish head soup (p. 8)

Armand Ruffo

• Today the Lake (Again) (p. 9)

David A. Groulx

• Excavating the Will (p. 30)

Gord Bruyere

• Laugh in an Indian Way (p. 31)

Alootook Ipellie

• The Igloos Are Calm in the Camp (p. 43)

Chris Bose

• Untitled (p. 44)

Armand Ruffo

• Drum Song (p. 62 - 63)

Annharte

• Geriatric Canoe Princess (p. 64 - 67)

Al Hunter

• Dream Horses (p. 85 - 86)

Duane Niatum

• Riding the Wake of the Paddle Journey (p. 87 - 88)

Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

• driving to santa fe (p. 108 - 109)

Book Reviews

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Narratives of Community (p. 110 - 112)

by Brad Neufeldt

Book(s) reviewed:

1. kwayask ê-kî-pê-kiskinowâpahtihicik / Their Example Showed Me the Way: A Cree Woman's Life Shaped by Two Cultures, told by Emma Minde by Freda Ahenakew and H. C. Wolfart
2. Voices From Hudson Bay: Cree Stories From York Factory by Flora Beardy and Robert Coutts
3. Winisk: A Cree Indian Settlement on Hudson Bay by Vita Rordam

Subjects: Autobiography, First Nations, Life Writing, Native Studies, Northern Canada

Art Objects and Family Heirlooms (p. 112 - 114)

by Renée Hulan

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Imaging the Arctic by J. C. H. King and Henriette Lidchi
2. Looking North: Art from the University of Alaska Museum by Aldona Jonaitis
3. Powerful Images: Portrayals of Native America by Sarah E. Boehme et al.

Subjects: Art, First Nations, Native Studies, Northern Canada, Photography

A Good Book (p. 115 - 116)

by Barbara Pell

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Good House by Bonnie Burnard

Subjects: Novel, Ontario

Cartography to Colony (p. 116 - 117)

by Bryan N. S. Gooch

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island by Daniel W. Clayton

Subjects: British Columbia, Canadian Studies, Colonialism, First Nations, History, Landscape/Space

Three Solitudes (p. 117 - 118)

by Laura J. Murray

Book(s) reviewed:

1. We Are Not You: First Nations and Canadian Modernity by Claude Denis

Subjects: Canadian Studies, First Nations, Law & Prison, Nationalism, Native Studies, Quebec

Staging Northern Ghosts (p. 119 - 120)

by Martin Kuester

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Staging the North: Twelve Canadian Plays by Lisa Chalykoff, Eve D'Aeth, and Sherrill Grace

Subjects: Drama, Northern Canada

Conceptualism (p. 120 - 121)

by Clint Burnham

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Island Thought: An Archipelagic Journey Published at Irregular Intervals. #1 by Robert Graham

Subjects: Art, British Columbia, Essays, Film

Liminal Voices (p. 121 - 123)

by Catherine Rainwater

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter by Janet Campbell Hale
2. Feminist Readings of Native American Literature: Coming to Voice by Kathleen M. Donovan

Subjects: Autobiography, Essays, First Nations, Gender, Life Writing, Native Studies

Reconfiguring Power in BC (p. 123 - 124)

by Joel Martineau

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Resettlement of British Columbia by Cole Harris

Subjects: British Columbia, Colonialism, Essays, First Nations, History

Introducing Oeuvres (p. 124 - 126)

by Robert Thacker

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Alice Munro by Coral Ann Howell
2. Mavis Gallant by Danielle Schaub

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Short Fiction

First Nations Identity (p. 126 - 129)

by Jennifer Kramer

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Mythic Beings: Spirit of the Northwest Coast by Gary Wyatt
2. Privileging the Past: Reconstructing History in Northwest Coast Art by Judith Ostrowitz
3. The Star-Man and Other Tales by Basil H. Johnston and Jonas George (Wah-sa-ghe-zik)
4. The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art by Allan J. Rayan
5. What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses? by Richard Van Camp and George Littlechild

Subjects: Art, Children's Literature, First Nations, Mythology, Native Studies, Oral

A Search for April Raintree (p. 130 - 131)

by Renée Hulan

Book(s) reviewed:

1. In Search of April Raintree. Critical Edition. by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier and Cheryl Suzack

Subjects: Essays, First Nations, Literary Criticism, Native Studies, Novel

In Search of the Sacred (p. 131 - 134)

by David Kent

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Concise History of Christianity in Canada by Terence Murphy and Roberto Perin
2. Locations of the Sacred: Essays on Religion, Literature, and Canadian Culture by William C. James

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Essays, First Nations, Religion

More Northern Indices (p. 134 - 137)

by Sherrill Grace

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage by James P. Delgado
2. Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike by Charlene Porsild
3. True North: The Yukon and the Northwest Territories by William R. Morrison
4. Un/Covering the North: News, Media, and Aboriginal People by Valerie Alia

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Exploration, Journalism, Landscape/Space, Media & Communications, Northern Canada

In Touch with the Land (p. 137 - 139)

by Bryan N. S. Gooch

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Summer Gone by David Macfarlane
2. The Clouded Leopard: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire by Wade Davis
3. Tom Thomson's Shack by Harold Rhenisch

Subjects: British Columbia, Environment, Essays, Nature Writing, Novel, Ontario

Breaking Out of the Lens (p. 139 - 141)

by Deena Rymhs

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Hollywood's Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor
2. Speaking for the Generations: Native Writers on Writing by Simon Ortiz

Subjects: Autobiography, Essays, Film, First Nations, Native Studies

Hybrid Imaginings (p. 141 - 144)

by Warren Cariou

Book(s) reviewed:

1. I Knew Two Métis Women: The Lives of Dorothy Scofield and Georgina Houle Young by Gregory Scofield
2. Red Blood: One (Mostly) White Guy's Encounters with the Native World by Robert Hunter
3. The Visions and Revelations of St. Louis the Métis by David Day
4. Thunder Through My Veins: Memories of a Metis Childhood by Gregory Scofield

Subjects: Autobiography, First Nations, Life Writing

Narrating BC (p. 144 - 147)

by Joel Martineau

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Talk and Log: Wilderness Politics in British Columbia, 1965-96 by Jeremy Wilson
2. West by Northwest: British Columbia Short Stories by David Stouck and Myler Wilkinson
3. Wilderness Beginnings by Rose Hertel Falkenhagen

Subjects: British Columbia, Canadian Studies, Environment, History, Immigrant, Landscape/Space, Politics, Short Fiction

Taking Soundings (p. 147 - 149)

by Eve D'Aeth

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Echoing Silence: Essays on Artic Narrative by John Moss
2. Fearless Warriors by Drew Hayden Taylor
3. Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth by Drew Hayden Taylor

Subjects: Drama, Essays, First Nations, Northern Canada, Ontario, Short Fiction

Mythologizing History (p. 149 - 151)

by Coral Ann Howells

Book(s) reviewed:

1. New World Myth: Postmodernism and Postcolonialism in Canadian Fiction by Marie Vautier

Subjects: Historiography, Literary Criticism, Mythology, Nationalism, Postcolonialism, Postmodernism

Women of the North (p. 151 - 154)

by Susanna Egan

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Saqiyuq: Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women by Apphia Agalakti Awa, Rhoda Kaukjak Katsak, Sandra Pikujak Katsak, and Nancy Wachowich

Subjects: First Nations, Life Writing, Northern Canada

Legacy of the Bear's Lip (p. 154 - 156)

by Heather Hodgson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman by Ruby Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson

Subjects: Autobiography, Biography, First Nations, Law & Prison, Life Writing, Trauma

Opinions & Notes

Robert Bringhurst

• The Origin of Mind (p. 157 - 166)
• Subjects: First Nations, History, Language/Linguistics, Native Studies, Oral

Kevin McNeilly

• Cutting Both Ways: Robert Bringhurst and Haida Literature (p. 167 - 174)
• Subjects: First Nations, Publishing

Janice Fiamengo

• Reconsidering Pauline (p. 174 - 176)
• Subjects: First Nations, Poetry

W. H. New

• Re-Collecting 1999 (p. 176 - 187)
• Subjects: Anthologies, Autobiography, Biography, Drama, Novel, Poetry, Short Fiction

Eva-Marie Kröller

• Eccentric Genres (p. 188 - 189)
• Subjects: Women's Literature