Literary land claims : the "Indian land question" from Pontiac's war to Attawapiskat / Margery Fee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fee, Margery, 1948- author.

Series:

Indigenous studies series.

Indigenous studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians in literature.

Colonization in literature.

Indians of North America--Canada--Claims.

Indians of North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Distribution:

Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2015.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."--Publisher.

Contents:

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE "How Can They Give It When It Is Our Own?" :؛Imagining the Indian Land Question from Here

CHAPTER TWO "Why Did They Take Our Hunting Grounds?": John Richardson (1796-1852) Laments for the Nation

CHAPTER THREE "That 'Ere Ingian's One of Us!": Richardson Rewrites the Burkean Savage

CHAPTER FOUR "We Have to Walk on the Ground": Constitutive Rhetoric in the Courtroom Addresses of Louis Riel (1844-1885)

CHAPTER FIVE "We Indians Own These Lands": Performance, Authenticity, Disidentification, and E. Pauline Johnson / Tekahionwake (1861-1913)

CHAPTER SIX"They Taught Me Much": Imposture, Animism, Ecosystem, and Archibald Belaney / Grey Owl (1888-1938)

CHAPTER SEVEN "They Never Even Sent Us a Letter”: Harry Robinson (1900-1990) on Literacy and Land

(In)Conclusion, or Attawapiskat v. #Ottawapiskat.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-296) and index.

ISBN:

9781771120999

1771120991

OCLC:

939262134