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Indigenous people have long been represented as roaming “savages” without land title and without literature.
Literary Land Claims: From Pontiac's War to Attawapiskat analyses works produced between 1832 and the late 1970s by writers who resisted these dominant notions.
List of contents
- Literary Land Claims: The "Indian Land Question" from Pontiac's War to Attawapiskat by Margery Fee
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1 Imagining "The Indian Land Question" from Here
- 2 "Why have they taken our hunting grounds?": John Richardson's Lament for a Nation
- 3 "That 'ere Ingian's one of us!": Richardson Rewrites the Burkean Savage
- 4 "We have to walk on the ground": Constitutive Rhetoric in Riel's Addresses to the Court
- 5 "We Indians own these lands": Performance, Authenticity, Disidentification, and E. Pauline Johnson / Tekahionwake
- 6 "They taught me much": Imposture, Animism, Ecosystem and Archibald Belaney / Grey Owl
- 7 "They never even sent us a letter": Literacy and Land in Harry Robinson's Origin Story
- Conclusion: Attawapiskat v. #Ottawapiskat
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
About the author
Margery Fee is a professor of English at the University of British Columbia, where she has taught Indigenous literature since 1996. Her most recent articles in that field appeared in What's to Eat? Entrees in Canadian Foodways, edited by Nathalie Cooke, and Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical Conversations, edited by Deanna Reder and Linda M. Morra. She co-authored the Guide to Canadian English Usage.
