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263 Canadian Literature
2025

Editorial

“Ripped in Half” (pp. 8-11)
Mary Chapman

Forum

Green Grass, Troubled Waters: A Forum on Thomas King after Disclosure — Introduction (pp. 12-13)
Mary Chapman
Inconvenient Returns: Teaching Indigenous Literature amid Identity Controversy (pp. 14-17)
Dallas Hunt
The Native in Literature (pp. 18-19)
Marilyn Dumont
Not Such a Good Story after All (pp. 20-25)
Daniel Heath Justice
Who Is Kin? (pp. 26-29)
Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer
“We’ve Got It from Here” (pp. 30-33)
Gage Karahkwí:io Diabo
Indigenous Literary Biography — Introduction (pp. 34-35)
Renae Watchman and Madeleine Reddon
Lee Maracle (pp. 36-51)
Cora Coady
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (pp. 52-59)
Frederick White
Drew Hayden Taylor (pp. 60-69)
Amy S. Fatzinger
Winona LaDuke (pp. 70-83)
Melissa Borgia-Askey
Tommy Orange (pp. 84-94)
Melissa Borgia-Askey
Cherie Dimaline (pp. 95-109)
Aubrey Jean Hanson and Danielle Marie Bitz
Billy-Ray Belcourt (pp. 110-118)
Paulina Johnson
Joshua Whitehead (pp. 119-126)
Christian Isbister

Articles

“No Landfill Is a Grave”: Learning to Listen to Indigenous Women’s Poetry in wînipêk (pp. 127-152)
Jamie Paris

Belonging to Place: Gendered Nature and Female Agency in L. M. Montgomery’s Emily Trilogy (pp. 153-174)
Michaela Wipond

The Gloriously Ugly in Marian Engel’s No Clouds of Glory (Sarah Bastard’s Notebook) (pp. 175-196)
Sharon D. Engbrecht

Decomposition as Pedagogy: Notes Towards a Practice of (Un)Becoming (pp. 197-218)
Melissa Jacques

An Interview with Sherrill Grace: A Life with Canada’s Literature and the Arts (pp. 219-247)
Margery Fee and Sherrill Grace

Poems

The reconciliation (pp. 259)
Amanda Fayant
Snowflakes Out of Season (pp. 260)
Avis Blackbird
In another line of time— (pp. 261)
Alison McBain
Witness (pp. 262-263)
K.I. Press
Staining (pp. 264-265)
Zav Levinson
Mosquitoes (pp. 266-267)
Chelsea Tesch
Hungry ghosts (pp. 268-269)
Y. S. Lee
Before I loved my curls— (pp. 270)
Maria Giesbrecht

Book Reviews

Review of Royally Wronged: The Royal Society of Canada and Indigenous Peoples by Constance Backhouse, et al., eds, and It Was Dark There All the Time: Sophia Burthen and the Legacy of Slavery in Canada by Andrew Hunter (pp. 248-250)
Catherine Rainwater

Book(s) Reviewed

  • It Was Dark There All the Time: Sophia Burthen and the Legacy of Slavery in Canada by Andrew Hunter
  • Royally Wronged: The Royal Society of Canada and Indigenous Peoples by Constance Backhouse, Cynthia E. Milton, Margaret Kovach and Adele Perry

Review of The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being by Nancy Van Styvendale, et al., eds., A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast: Health, Healing, and Haʔum by Charlotte Coté, and Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts by Chadwick Allen (pp. 250-253)
Sylvie Vranckx

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being by Nancy Van Styvendale, J. D. McDougall, Robert Henry and Robert Alexander Innes
  • Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts by Allen Chadwick
  • A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast by Charlotte Coté

Review of Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead and Exactly What I Said: Translating Words and Worlds by Elizabeth Yeoman (pp. 253-255)
Taylor Breckles

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Exactly What I Said: Translating Words and Worlds by Elizabeth Yeoman
  • Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead

Review of Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and Métis âcimisowina by Deanna Reder, Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity by Darrel J. McLeod, and So You Girls Remember That: Memories of a Haida Elder by Gaadgas Nora Bellis with Jenny Nelson (pp. 255-258)
Sylvie Vranckx

Book(s) Reviewed

  • So You Girls Remember That: Memories of a Haida Elder by Gaadgas Nora Bellis and Jenny Nelson
  • Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity by Darrel J. McLeod
  • Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and Métis âcimisowina by Deanna Reder